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RM2 Cortex-M3 implementation

This course covers the Cortex-M3 ARM core

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Objectives
  • This course is split into 3 important parts:
    • Cortex-M3 architecture
    • Cortex-M3 software implementation and debug
    • Cortex-M3 hardware implementation.
  • Although the Cortex-M3 seems to a simple 32-bit core, it supports sophisticated mechanisms, such as exception pre-emption, internal bus matrix and debug units.
  • Through a tutorial, the Cortex-M3 low level programming is explained, particularly the ARM linker parameterizing and some tricky assembly instructions.
  • Note that attendees can replay these labs after the training.
  • The course also details the hardware implementation and provides some guidelines to design a SoC based on Cortex-M3, taking benefit of concurrent AHB transactions
  • An overview of the Coresight specification is provided prior to describing the debug related units.
A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com
Prerequisites
  • A basic understanding of microprocessors and microcontrollers.

ARM Cortex-M3 CORPORATE INTRODUCTION
  • ARM architectural summary
  • Meeting the challenge with profiles
  • ARM instruction set evolution
ARM Cortex-M3 INTRODUCTION
  • ARM Cortex-M3 processor macrocell
  • Programmer’s model
  • Program status registers
  • Instruction pipeline
  • Fixed memory map
  • Memory Protection Unit
  • Interrupt handling
  • Power management
ARM Cortex-M3 CORE
  • Block diagram
  • Datapath and pipeline
  • Write buffer
  • Bit-banding
  • State, privilege and stacks
  • Alignment and endianness
  • System control block
THUMB-2 INSTRUCTION SET
  • General points on syntax
  • Data processing instructions
  • Branch and control flow instructions
  • Memory access instructions
  • Exception generating instructions
  • If then conditional blocks
  • Stack in operation
  • Accessing special registers
  • Tutorial: Becoming familiar with Keil IDE
    • How to design a new project
    • Parameterizing the IDE
    • Executing simple labs to understand the operation of assembly complex instructions, such as table branch and it
INTERRUPTS
  • Basic interrupt operation
  • Interrupt entry / exit, timing diagrams
  • Tail chaining
  • Interrupt response, pre-emption
  • NVIC registers
  • Interrupt prioritization
  • Interrupt implementation configurability, impact on core size
EXCEPTIONS
  • Exception behavior, exception return
  • Non-maskable exceptions
  • Privilege, modes and stacks
  • Priority boosting
  • Vector table
MEMORY TYPES
  • Device and normal memory ordering
  • Memory type access restrictions
  • Access order
  • Memory barriers
MEMORY PROTECTION UNIT
  • Memory protection overview
  • Fault status and address registers
  • Region overview, memory type and access control, sub-regions
  • Setting up the MPU
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT WITH Cortex-M3
  • Embedded development process
  • Application startup
  • Placing code, data, stack and heap in the memory map, scatterloading
  • Reset and initialisation
  • Placing a minimal vector table
  • Building and debugging your image
  • Long branch veneers
  • Tutorial: Becoming familiar with Keil IDE
    • Scatterloading
    • Retargeting the C library
    • Handling interrupts in C language
    • Using SVC
INVASIVE DEBUG
  • Coresight debug infrastructure
  • Halt mode
  • Monitor mode
  • Debug event sources
  • Flash patch and breakpoint features
  • FPB remapping
  • Data watchpoint and trace
  • DWT registers
  • ARM debug interface specification
  • AHB-Access Port
  • Possible DP implementations
NON-INVASIVE DEBUG
  • Basic ETM operation
  • Instruction trace principles
  • ITM packets
  • DWT trace packets
  • Time-stamping packets
  • Instruction tracing
  • TPIU components
  • TPIU pinout
  • Software interface
C/C++ COMPILER HINTS AND TIPS FOR Cortex-M3
  • ARM compiler optimisations
  • Mixing C/C++ and assembly
  • Coding with ARM compiler
  • Measuring stack usage
  • Unaligned accesses
  • Local and global data issues, alignment of structures
    • Tutorial: Implementing these optimizations by using ARM/Keil compiler
AMBA3.0 INTERCONNECT SPECIFICATION
  • Purpose of this specification
  • 2-bus organization
  • Example of SoC based on AMBA specification
AHB - ADVANCED HIGH PERFORMANCE BUS
  • Centralized address decoding
  • Address gating logic
  • Arbitration, bus parking
  • Single-data transactions
  • Address pipelining
  • Sequential transfers
  • AHB-lite specification
APB - ADVANCED PERIPHERAL BUS
  • Second-level address decoding
  • Operation of the AHB-to-APB bridge
  • APB3.0 new features
AHB CORTEX-M3 HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION
  • Clocking and reset, power management
  • Bus interfaces
  • AMBA-3 compliance
  • Unifying the code buses
  • Branch Status signal
  • Unaligned access management
  • Connection to the TPIU