Course Length: 1 day
This course is designed to provide hardware and software engineers, that are new to Arm® processors, with the essential basic information they will need to be aware of to start Arm-based designs. It can also be useful to non-technical staff who require a basic understanding of Arm technology.
- A basic understanding of microprocessors or microcontrollers.
- A basic understanding of assembler or C programming would be useful, but not essential.
- No prior knowledge of the Arm processor is assumed.
The training materials for this class are based on Arm's own material.
Doulos is a global Arm Approved Training Partner.
- Introduction to the Arm Architecture
Architecture versions • Registers and instruction sets • Exception model • Memory model • Coprocessors • Architecture extensions • The Future
- Arm Cortex-A17 / A15 / A7 Overview
Introduction • New Features in Cortex®-A17 / Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 • big/LITTLE Processing
- Caches and Branch Prediction
Caches basics • Arm Cache example • L1 and L2 Cache Interactions • Caching policies • Inner and Outer Caches • Cache Determinism • Maintenance and Coherency • Branch Prediction
- TrustZone®
Why do we need a Secure environment? • Armv7-A Security Extensions • Software • Memory System • Debug
- Architecture Overview
Privilege levels • AArch64 registers • A64 Instruction Set • AArch64 Exception Model • AArch64 Memory Model
- Software Engineer's Guide to the Arm Cortex-A72, Cortex-A57, Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A35 MPCore
Core pipelines • Configuration options • Branch prediction • Cache overview • Data cache coherency • Memory management • Micro-architectural features • Interrupts and bus interfaces • Debug and timers • Big-little
- Arm Cortex-M3/M4 Overview
Block Diagram • Programmer’s Model • Datapath and Pipeline • Memory Map • Bit-Banding • System Timer (SysTick) • State, Privilege, and Stacks • Alignment and Endianness • System Control Block
