Microcontrollers
ARM/CORTEX™
ARMv8-M Architecture (Cortex™-M23/-M33) Online Training - for Participants with Knowledge of the Previous Architecture
In this Online Training, you get familiar with the new ARMv8-M architecture (Cortex™-M23 and -M33) and can write software in C and Assembler. You can locate programs in memory in secure and non secure configuration and test them. This is the perfect start for designing Cortex™-M23/M33 based systems.
After successfully taking part in the seminar and performing the related excercises, you will be granted the MicroConsult Training Certificate.
You know the new ARMv8-M architecture (Cortex™-M23 and -M33) and can write software in C and Assembler. You can locate programs in memory in secure and non secure configuration and test them. This is the perfect start for designing Cortex™-M23/M33 based systems.
Your trainer: Dipl.-Ing. Remo Markgraf.
The ARMv8-M Architecture Update Online Training addresses software and hardware developers with a basic knowledge of the previous architecture (ARMv6-M/ ARMv7-M architecture of the Cortex™-M0/M0+/M3/M4 or -M7).
Basic knowledge of the ARMv6-M/ ARMv7-M architecture of the Cortex™-M0/M0+/M3/M4 or -M7 is required, as well as basic knowledge of ANSI-C and microcontrollers.
The taining focuses on the new features offered by the Cortex™-M23, M33 and the ARMv8-M architecture.
TrustZone for ARMv8-M
- Secure state transitions
- Function calls from secure state to non-secure state
- Function returns from non-secure state
- Practical exercises: developing and setting up mixed secure/non-secure projects for Cortex™-M33
Cortex™-M (ARMv8-M) Processor Architecture
- Stack limit register
- Secure state, security transitions
- Banked registers
- Cortex™-M memory map, system control block
- Practical exercises: New stack limit registers
Differences to the ARMv6-M and ARMv7-M Processor Architecture
Cortex™-M33, M23 Extended Instruction Set
- Branch and control flow instructions with security transitions
- Security instructions
- Assembler directives
- Practical exercises: Generating Assembler routines, Assembler debugging, code optimizaiton
Exception and Interrupt Handling
- Security targeting
- Banked exceptions
- Banked vector tables
- Tail chaining with security transitions
- Interrupt configuration and status
- Secure exception priority boosting
- Secure faults
- Practical exercises: System tick, supervisor call and PendSV in the context of RTOS applications
- Practical exercises: Fault handlers and status information output
Memory Protection Unit MPU for Embedded Systems
- ARMv8-M MPU
- Comparision to previous ARMv7-M MPU
- Practical exercises: Programming the MPU
- Practical exercises: Dynamic reprogramming in the scheduler
Security Attribution Unit (SAU, IDAU)
- Overview on the security and implementation defined attribution unit
- Attribution attributes secure, non-secure, non-secure callable
- Practical exercises: Programming the security attribution unit
Hardware-near C Programming based on CMSIS
- CMSIS extensions for ARMv8-M
Exercises with Keil µVision in Assembler and C
- Exercises for ARMv8-M are performed with the ARM Simulator