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AAA ARM Cortex-A and R Architecture

This course explains the ARM Cortex-A and R global architecture.

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Objectives
  • Describing the ARM v7 and v8 architecture profiles A and R
  • Describing the various ARM Cortex-A and R processor architecture
  • Presenting the Hardware and Software implementation possibilities to learn how to create Cortex-A based applications
  • Detailing ARMv8 Security (TrustZone) and Virtualization (Hypervisor) features
  • This course provides all the prerequisites for the courses describing in details the various Cortex-A and Cortex-R cores and CPUs.
Course environment
  • Convenient course material with space for taking notes
  • Demos targeting a Cortex-A9 based SoC
Prerequisites
  • Familiarity with embedded C concepts and programming
  • Basic knowledge of embedded processors

First Day
Architecture
  • Introduction to ARM and the Architecture
  • The AArch32 Programmer’s Model
  • The AArch64 Programmer's Model
  • Exceptions
  • Memory Architecture
  • Caches
Implementations
  • Versions and Implementations
  • ARMv4T
  • ARMv5TE
  • ARMv6
  • ARMv7
  • ARMv8
  • SecurCore
  • Architecture Extensions
  • Pipelines
  • Cycle Counting
Second Day
System features
  • Multi-processing
  • Cache maintenance
  • Cache coherency hardware
  • Interrupt distribution
  • Power saving modes
  • Memory system hierarchy
  • Software storage and upload
AArch64 Exception Model
  • Four exception levels
  • Exception Link Registers
  • Register banking by exception level
  • Nesting on the same exception level
  • Exception type and exception origin
  • Syndrome registers used to provide status information to the exception handler
  • Exception return instruction
  • AArch64 Exception vector tables
Generic Interrupt Controller
  • Generic Interrupt Controller CPU Interface Registers
  • Interrupt Virtualization
  • Interrupt Handling to support Nesting
Third Day
Multicore operation
  • Single Processor / Multi-Task RTOS
  • Multi-CPU Exclusive Resource Management
  • Wait for Event / send Event
  • Wait for Interrupt
  • Multi-Processor / Multi-Task RTOS
Software Development
  • Embedded Software Development
  • Libraries and Linkage
  • Target platforms
  • Memory ordering models
  • Barriers and synchronization
  • Cache policies
  • Operating system support
  • Booting
Software Optimization
  • Introduction
  • Coding techniques
  • Profiling
Software debug
  • Debug basics
  • Debug hardware
  • Invasive Debug
  • Non-invasive Debug
  • Standard Debug Techniques
  • Timing
  • Resources
CoreSight Debug Components
  • Self-Hosted Debug
  • Debug State Instructions
  • Linked comparisons for Breakpoint/Watchpoint exception generation
  • Software Step exceptions
  • Routing debug exceptions
  • External debug, cross-triggering
  • Embedded Trace Macrocell architecture
Fourth Day
ARMv8 Memory Management Unit
  • ARMv7 MMU and LPAE compatibility
  • LPAE enhancements to adapt to AArch64
  • Supporting up to 48 bits of VA per TTBR
  • Access permission checking
  • Supporting up to 48 bits of IPA and PA spaces
  • VMSAv8-64 address translation system
  • Memory translation granule size
  • Descriptor page table organization, descriptor format
  • Hierarchical control of Secure or Non-secure memory accesses
The ARMv8 Security Model
  • Compatibility with ARMv7
  • Security model when EL3 is using AArch64
  • Trapping to EL3 using AArch64
  • Re-entrant mode
  • Secure exception management, trapping
  • Asynchronous exception routing and control
Virtualization
  • New hypervisor privilege level on non-secure side
  • Re-entrant mode
  • Virtualization Extension Effect on MMU
    • Second stage MMU
    • I/O MMU
    • Managing external masters programmed by the guest OS without an I/O MMU
  • Emulation support
  • Hypervisor exception management, trapping
  • Asynchronous exception routing and control
  • Resource management
  • Virtualization modes
    • Para virtualization versus full virtualization
    • Separation kernels
    • Partitioning kernels
    • Operating-system virtualization (containers)
    • Existing hypervisors (Xen, KVM…)