ARM DDI 0500D Copyright © 2013-2014 ARM. All rights reserved. A-1
ID021414 Non-Confidential
Appendix A
Signal Descriptions
This appendix describes the Cortex-A53 processor signals. It contains the following sections:
• About the signal descriptions on page A-2.
• Clock signals on page A-3.
• Reset signals on page A-4.
• Configuration signals on page A-5.
• Generic Interrupt Controller signals on page A-6.
• Generic Timer signals on page A-8.
• Power management signals on page A-9.
• L2 error signals on page A-11.
• ACE and CHI interface signals on page A-12.
• CHI interface signals on page A-13.
• ACE interface signals on page A-17.
• ACP interface signals on page A-22.
• External debug interface on page A-25.
• ATB interface signals on page A-28.
• Miscellaneous ETM trace unit signals on page A-29.
• CTI interface signals on page A-30.
• PMU interface signals on page A-31.
• DFT and MBIST interface signals on page A-32.