RR3ARM Cortex-R52/R52+ Implementation and software design
Objectives
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- Basic knowledge of ARM architecture
- Familiarity with embedded systems
- Experience in assembler programming (optional)
- Software developers working with ARM architecture
- System architects
- Embedded systems engineers
- Theoretical course
- Printed and PDF material in English.
- Trainer assistance throughout.
- Each session starts with a trainee check-in.
- Prerequisites are checked before the training.
- Progress is assessed by quizzes at the end of sections.
- Each trainee receives a completion certificate.
- If a prerequisite gap appears, alternative or additional training is offered.
Course Outline
- Core registers
- Exception model
- Instruction sets
- Memory model
- Virtualization
- Overview
- Memory System
- TCM Memory
- Level-1 caches
- Direct access to internal memory
- AXIM interface
- Low-latency peripheral port
- Flash interface
- AXIS interface
- Error detection and handling
- Safety and Configurable options
- DCLS
- Spin-lock
- Pipeline
- Instruction execution
- Conditional instructions
- Flag-setting instructions
- Timings
- Instructions cycle timings
- Base instructions cycle timings
- Pipeline Behavior
- Skewing
- Dual-issuing
- Load / Store
- Division and square root
- Floating-point and Advanced SIMD Multiply accumulate instructions
- Instructions with exceptional behavior
- A32 and T32 instructions
- Exception state
- Exception levels
- Reset state in ARMv8-R
- Interrupt
- Controller
- Handling
- Virtualization
- Cache
- Cache basics: organization, replacement algorithm, write policies
- Cache organization
- Write with allocate policy
- Understanding transient cache line load / store: linefill buffers, eviction buffer
- Cache maintenance operations
- TCM
- Tightly Coupled Memories, address decoding
- ITCM and DTCM configuration
- Accessing the TCMs from the AXI slave interface
- ECC protection, TCM internal error detection and correction
- Preloading TCMs with ECC
- Using TCMs from reset
- Memory ordering
- Memory Barriers
- Shared Resource management
- Memory protection overview
- MPU regions
- Virtualization support
- Introduction
- Fundamentals
- Configuring the GIC (SPI, PPI, SGI …)
- Handling Interrupts
- Configuring LPIs
- Virtualization
- Introduction to virtualization
- Basic concepts
- Virtual interrupts
- Trapping exceptions
- Trapping instructions and register access
- PMSA (MPU)
- Virtual timers
- Virtual machine IDs
- Backup registers
- Examples of virtualization
- Guest OS switcher
- OS monitor
- Virtual interrupts
- Inter-Processor Interrupts
- Cluster ID
- Exclusive access monitor, implementing Boolean semaphores
- Global monitor
- Spin-lock implementation
- Using events
- Event interface
- Counters
- Authentication signals and PMU behavior
- Debug overview (External debug, self-hosted debug …)
- Cross trigger
- Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM)
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