ARM Cores
Courses on ARM cores
ARM cores sit inside most embedded designs shipping today, from a Cortex-M0+ running on a coin cell to a Cortex-A72 booting Linux. Performance is the visible difference. The exception model, the memory system and the security architecture differ enough that code written for one profile rarely moves to another unchanged.
The architecture itself keeps evolving. ARMv8-A brought 64-bit execution and exception levels, ARMv8-M brought TrustZone down to the microcontroller, and each generation adds to the debug and trace infrastructure. Knowing what the core guarantees, and what it leaves to software, is what separates firmware that works from firmware that works every time.
Our courses cover the Cortex-A, Cortex-R and Cortex-M families in depth: instruction sets, MMU and MPU, caches and coherency, exception handling, NEON and the FPU, the GIC, CoreSight debug, and the AMBA buses that tie a SoC together. Each one is built around lab work on real silicon.
Available Courses
It provides the prerequisites needed to start learning the various ARMv7 A&R specific cores. It also briefly outlines the ARMv8 64bit architecture.
It provides the global understanding of the ARMv7 and v8 Cortex-M architecture needed to efficiently program MCU based on such cores.
This course provides a deep dive into the ARM v8-R architecture and Cortex-R52/R52+ processors, focusing on pipeline behavior, exception handling, and memory management. Participants will explore advanced features like virtualization, safety mechanisms, and synchronization techniques, essential for developing robust real-time systems.