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Cortex®-A5, A7, A8, A9, A15, A17: Arm® Cortex-A Architecture Training - Face-to-Face Training

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You know the Cortex®-A architecture and can write software in C and Assembler. This is the perfect start for designing Arm based systems.

Software and hardware developers

A basic understanding of ANSI-C and microcontrollers.

Cortex®-Ax Processor Architecture

  • Operating modes, states, pipeline, register organization
  • User mode, fast interrupt (FIQ) mode, interrupt (IRQ) mode
  • Supervisor mode, system mode, undefined mode, secure monitor mode
  • Thumb-2 state, Arm state, Jazelle state, ThumbEE state
  • Cortex®-Ax register file
  • Status register

Arm Processor Cores: Overview

  • Cortex®-M, Cortex®-R, Cortex®-A processor cores
  • Arm7 / Arm9 / Arm10 / Arm11

Arm, Thumb-2 and DSP Instruction Sets

  • v7 Thumb-2 instruction set
  • Arm/Thumb interworking
  • Most important assembler directives
  • v4, v4T, v5, v6 instruction set overview

Advanced SIMD and VFP Extension

  • NEON coprocessor
  • VFP floating point unit

Jazelle RCT Extension Overview

  • Thumb-2EE instruction set
  • ThumbEE state

Exception Handling

  • Exception modes: FIQ, IRQ, ABORT, UNDEF, SVC, SMC
  • Exception handler templates
  • Vector tables: normal, secure, monitor mode
  • TrustZone (secure) exception handling
  • Exception handling in singlecore and multicore systems
  • Global interrupt controller (GIC)
  • Vector interrupt controller (VIC)

System Control Coprocessor, CP15

  • Arm coprocessor concept, CP0 ... CP15
  • Overall system control & configuration
  • Cache configuration and cache management
  • Memory management unit (MMU) configuration
  • System performance monitoring (PMU)

Level 1 Memory System

  • Instruction and data cache
  • Cache initialization
  • Store buffer

Level 2 Memory System

  • Advanced microprocessor bus architecture (AXI)
  • AXI bus masters
  • AXI bus slaves
  • Second level caches
  • Preload engine (PLE)
  • On-chip RAM and flash, peripherals
  • External memory interface (EMI)

Memory Management Unit MMU

  • Translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
  • Translation and page tables, attributes
  • Virtual addressing, tablewalk

Cortex®-Ax Multiprocessor Core

  • Primary, secondary CPU
  • Global interrupt controller (GIC)
  • Snoop control unit (SCU)
  • Accelerator coherency port (ACP)
  • Address filtering

Startup Singlecore System

  • Startup file
  • Vector table, stack, PLL and data initialization
  • Cache, MMU and branch predictor initialization
  • From reset to main

Startup Multicore System

  • From reset to main
  • Primary CPU initialization
  • Secondary CPU initialization

Clock, Reset and Power Control

  • Low power modes

TrustZone Extension

  • TrustZone overview
  • Secure monitor mode
  • TrustZone exception handling
  • Startup in Secure world
  • Switch from Secure world to Non-secure world

Virtualization Extension

  • Hyp mode
  • Hypervisor
  • Large address extension
  • L1 and L2 tablewalk

Cortex®-Ax Debug Support

  • Embedded trace macrocell (ETM)
  • Program trace macrocell (PTM)
  • CoreSight debug components
  • Performance monitoring unit (PMU)
  • Cross trigger unit
  • Debug coprocessor, CP14

Software Development Overview

  • CMSIS for Cortex®-A
  • Compiler options
  • Linker options
  • Description file
  • Locating program and data in memory

Practical exercises on all topics with IAR Workbench and an evaluation board

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Cortex®-A5, A7, A8, A9, A15, A17: Arm® Cortex-A Architecture Training - Face-to-Face Training

Content

Cortex®-Ax Processor Architecture

  • Operating modes, states, pipeline, register organization
  • User mode, fast interrupt (FIQ) mode, interrupt (IRQ) mode
  • Supervisor mode, system mode, undefined mode, secure monitor mode
  • Thumb-2 state, Arm state, Jazelle state, ThumbEE state
  • Cortex®-Ax register file
  • Status register

Arm Processor Cores: Overview

  • Cortex®-M, Cortex®-R, Cortex®-A processor cores
  • Arm7 / Arm9 / Arm10 / Arm11

Arm, Thumb-2 and DSP Instruction Sets

  • v7 Thumb-2 instruction set
  • Arm/Thumb interworking
  • Most important assembler directives
  • v4, v4T, v5, v6 instruction set overview

Advanced SIMD and VFP Extension

  • NEON coprocessor
  • VFP floating point unit

Jazelle RCT Extension Overview

  • Thumb-2EE instruction set
  • ThumbEE state

Exception Handling

  • Exception modes: FIQ, IRQ, ABORT, UNDEF, SVC, SMC
  • Exception handler templates
  • Vector tables: normal, secure, monitor mode
  • TrustZone (secure) exception handling
  • Exception handling in singlecore and multicore systems
  • Global interrupt controller (GIC)
  • Vector interrupt controller (VIC)

System Control Coprocessor, CP15

  • Arm coprocessor concept, CP0 ... CP15
  • Overall system control & configuration
  • Cache configuration and cache management
  • Memory management unit (MMU) configuration
  • System performance monitoring (PMU)

Level 1 Memory System

  • Instruction and data cache
  • Cache initialization
  • Store buffer

Level 2 Memory System

  • Advanced microprocessor bus architecture (AXI)
  • AXI bus masters
  • AXI bus slaves
  • Second level caches
  • Preload engine (PLE)
  • On-chip RAM and flash, peripherals
  • External memory interface (EMI)

Memory Management Unit MMU

  • Translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
  • Translation and page tables, attributes
  • Virtual addressing, tablewalk

Cortex®-Ax Multiprocessor Core

  • Primary, secondary CPU
  • Global interrupt controller (GIC)
  • Snoop control unit (SCU)
  • Accelerator coherency port (ACP)
  • Address filtering

Startup Singlecore System

  • Startup file
  • Vector table, stack, PLL and data initialization
  • Cache, MMU and branch predictor initialization
  • From reset to main

Startup Multicore System

  • From reset to main
  • Primary CPU initialization
  • Secondary CPU initialization

Clock, Reset and Power Control

  • Low power modes

TrustZone Extension

  • TrustZone overview
  • Secure monitor mode
  • TrustZone exception handling
  • Startup in Secure world
  • Switch from Secure world to Non-secure world

Virtualization Extension

  • Hyp mode
  • Hypervisor
  • Large address extension
  • L1 and L2 tablewalk

Cortex®-Ax Debug Support

  • Embedded trace macrocell (ETM)
  • Program trace macrocell (PTM)
  • CoreSight debug components
  • Performance monitoring unit (PMU)
  • Cross trigger unit
  • Debug coprocessor, CP14

Software Development Overview

  • CMSIS for Cortex®-A
  • Compiler options
  • Linker options
  • Description file
  • Locating program and data in memory

Practical exercises on all topics with IAR Workbench and an evaluation board