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ARM Cortex-M3/M4 Hardware Design

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• Course Type:  Hardware

• Course Length:  3 day(s)

Summary:

This course is designed for those who are designing hardware based around the ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 cores. Including an introduction to the ARM product range and supporting IP, the course covers the ARM core range, programmer's model, instruction set architecture and AMBA on-chip bus architecture. The Cortex-M3/M4 debug architecture is also covered. The course includes a number of worked examples to reinforce the lecture material.

Prerequisites:

• Some knowledge of embedded systems


• Familiarity with digital logic and hardware/ASIC design issues


• A basic awareness of ARM is useful but not essential

Audience:

Hardware design engineers who need to understand the issues involved when designing SoC's around the ARM Cortex-M3 core.

Modules:

• Cortex-M3 Overview


• Cortex-M3 Programmer’s Model


• Cortex-M3 Instruction Set


• Exception Handling


• AHB Protocol


• AHB Interconnection Architecture


• APB


• Cortex-M3 Processor Core


• Cortex-M3 Interfaces


• Memory Types


• Memory Protection and the Memory Map


• Vectored Interrupt Controller


• Initializing the Cortex-M3


• Cortex-M3 Implementation, Configuration and Deployment


• Cortex-M3 Debug Architecture


• Cortex-M3 Trace Architecture


• Cortex-M3 Integration

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