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RM1 Cortex-M1 implementation

This course covers the Cortex-M1 ARM core targetting FPGA SoCs

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Objectives
  • This course is split into 3 important parts:
    • Processor architecture
    • Software implementation
    • Hardware implementation.
  • A tutorial has been developed by ACSYS to facilitate the understanding of Cortex-M1 low level programming, therefore labs can be replayed after the course.
  • The course explains how to design a SoC based on Cortex-M1, clarifying the operation of the interconnect and the debug facilities integrated in the CPU.
A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com
  • Knowledge of ARM7/9.
  • This course does not include chapters on low level programming.
    • ACSYS offers a large set of tutorials to become familiar with RVDS, assembly level programming, compiler hints and tips.
  • More than 12 correct answers to Cortex-R prerequisites questionnaire.
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF course material (in English) supplemented by a printed version for face-to-face courses.
    • Online courses are dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system.
    • The trainer answers trainees' questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance.
  • At the start of each session the trainer will interact with the trainees to ensure the course fits their expectations and correct if needed
  • Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
  • The prerequisites indicated above are assessed before the training by the technical supervision of the traineein his company, or by the trainee himself in the exceptional case of an individual trainee.
  • Trainee progress is assessed by quizzes offered at the end of various sections to verify that the trainees have assimilated the points presented
  • At the end of the training, each trainee receives a certificate attesting that they have successfully completed the course.
    • In the event of a problem, discovered during the course, due to a lack of prerequisites by the trainee a different or additional training is offered to them, generally to reinforce their prerequisites,in agreement with their company manager if applicable.

Course Outline

  • Programmer's model
  • Fixed memory map
  • Privilege, modes and stacks
  • Memory Protection Unit
  • Interrupt handling
  • Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller [NVIC]
  • Power management
  • Debug
  • Datapath and pipeline
  • Write buffer
  • Bit-banding
  • System timer
  • State, privilege and stacks
  • System control block
  • Different level of debug implementation
  • Exception behavior, exception return
  • Non-maskable exceptions
  • Privilege, modes and stacks
  • Fault escalation
  • Vector table
  • Data processing instructions
  • Branch and control flow instructions
  • Memory access instructions
  • Exception generating instructions
  • If...then conditional blocks
  • Exclusive load and store instructions
  • Accessing special registers
  • Memory barriers and synchronization
  • Interrupt entry / exit, timing diagrams
  • Tail chaining
  • Interrupt response, pre-emption
  • Interrupt prioritisation
  • Interrupt implementation configurability, impact on core size
  • Memory types, restriction regarding load / store multiple
  • Device and normal memory ordering
  • Access order
  • Memory barriers
  • Cortex-M1 debug features
  • Monitor mode
  • Flash patch and breakpoint features
  • Data watchpoint and trace
  • DWT registers
  • AHB-Access Port
  • Functional Integration
  • Clocking
  • Reset
  • AHD and Debug interfaces
  • Synthesis, Place and Route
  • Sign-Off
  • Implementation flow
  • Configuration options
  • RTL Validation
  • Synthesis
  • Place and route
  • Qualification
  • Purpose of this specification
  • Example of SoC based on AMBA specification
  • Differences between AMBA2.0 and AMBA3.0
  • Centralized address decoding
  • Address gating logic
  • Arbitration, bus parking
  • Single-data transactions
  • Sequential transfers
  • Retry response
  • Split response
  • AHB-lite specification
  • Read timing diagram
  • Write timing diagram
  • Operation of the AHB-to-APB bridge
  • APB3.0 new features
  • Clocking and reset
  • Bus interfaces , AMBA-3 compliance
  • Debug interface, AHB-AP programming interface
  • Connection to the TPIU