ARM Architecture is great use in the embedded and into the tablets/Smartphone area. This training provides a deep overview of the ARM v7A Architecture covering a programmers view of the ARM processor. The course touches upon the instruction sets, register model, processor modes, exception model, memory model and multi-core architecture. Participants at the end of the course will have a good understanding of ARM Architecture from the perspective of an Application/Embedded Developer. The training will have theory sessions backed by lab work.

Topics Covered

Course Content: Day 1: * Introduction to Arm Architecture * Instruction Sets * Architecture Variants * Architecture Extentions * ARM Family of CPUs * ARM ARM * Application level Programmers Model * Data and Status registers * Integer Arithmetic * VFP Operations * Advanced SIMD * Coprocessor Support * Jazelle and thumb execution environments * Exception Model * Instruction Sets * Data Processing * Branch * Load Store * Load Store Multiple * Conditional Execution * ARM/Thumb/Thumb2 * Generating Exceptions * Coprocessor Operations * VFP/SIMD Data Processing * VFP/SIMD Load Store * ARM-Thumb Interworking * Lab Work Day 2: * Application Level Memory Model * Virtual and Physical Memory * Access Rights * Endian Support * Caches and Memory * Unaligned Access * Processor Modes * Core and Status Registers * Switching between modes * Exceptions and Exception Model * Exception Vector * Exception handling * Pseudocode of Exception Entry * Asynchronous Exceptions * Common Memory System Architecture * Caches and Cacheability * Memory Attributes * Memory Barriers * Multi Processor Extentions * ARM weakly ordered memory model * Synchronization Primitives * Lab Work

Who should attend

Application developers, Assembly programmers, SOC integrators / developers

Pre-requisites

Knowledge of C and Assembly

What you need to bring

NA

Key Takeaways

ARM(v8/v7) and x86 architecture * CPU micro-architecture * Multi-core architecture * System verification and emulation with Palladium/FPGA emulators * OS fundamentals - micro kernels, Linux * Virtualization - Hypervisors * Assembly language programming for ARM and x86 ISA * C/C++ programming, debuggers * Perl, Python, shell scripting * Verilog HDL, EDA tools