ARM Approved Training Center - Courses

Languages Training Offered In: Presented in German and EnglishAreas of Training Expertise: Embedded system design (HW, SW) for ARM microcontroller architectures (e.g. STM32 Cortex-M4/M3/M1/M0, Cortex-R4, STR7/8 family, Atmel AT91 family, NXP LPC family, etc.).

MicroConsult GmbH

ARM7/9/10/11: Architecture and Embedded Programming

 Book Course

• Course Type:  Hardware & Software

• Course Length:  5 day(s)

Summary:

You know the ARM architecture and can write software in C and Assembler. You can locate programs in memory and test them. This is the perfect start in designing ARM based software systems.

Prerequisites:

A basic understanding of ANSI-C and microcontrollers.

Audience:

Software and hardware developers.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please contact us to verify the training language for the individual dates (German or English): info@microconsult.de.

Modules:

ARM Processor Architecture
- Register organization, operation modes, states, pipeline
ARM Processor Cores
- ARM7TDMI / ARM9TDMI / ARM9E-S / ARM10 / ARM11 processor core
- Cortex family
ARM, Thumb and DSP Instruction Sets
- v4, v4T, v5, v6 instructions
- Thumb-2 instruction set overview
- ARM/Thumb interworking
- Assembler directives
Exception Handling
- FIQ, IRQ, Abort, Software, Undefined
- Exception handler templates
- Interrupt controller (ARM-VIC, Atmel-AIC, ST-EIC)
Coprocessors, Floating Point Unit
- ARM coprocessor concept
- System controller CP15
- Vectored Floating Point Unit, VFPU
Memory Interface
- Tightly coupled memory, cache architecture
- Memory Management Unit MMU
- Memory Protection Unit MPU for embedded systems
Embedded Core Debug, Embedded Trace Macrocell
- Watchpoint units, ETM
Embedded Software Development
- Adjustment of library routines to HW (retargeting)
- Locating code and data in memory (scatter loading)
- Linker description file
- Reset, start-up, start-up file
Efficient C-Programming for the ARM Architecture
- Compiler optimization, compiler options
- Interface C – Assembler
- Programming guidelines for ARM compilers
- Efficient use of local and global files
Hardware-near C
- C statements and their execution in Assembler
- Access to peripherals in C
- Layer model for embedded systems
- Structured description of peripherals
Practical Exercises with Keil μVision
- Other tools can be used if required
- All programs are tested on an evaluation board

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