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ARM Cortex-R4 Hardware Design

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• Course Type:  Hardware

• Course Length:  4 day(s)

Summary:

This course is designed for hardware engineers designing systems based around the ARM Cortex-R4 processor core. 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-R4 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-R4 processor core.

Modules:

• The ARM Architecture
  
• ARM CPU Architectures
  
• Memory Sub-systems
  
• PMSA (v6&7)
  
• Memory Access Behavior
  
• Cortex-R4 Overview
  
• ARM Cortex-R4 Instruction Sets
  
• Exception Handling
  
• AHB Protocol
  
• APB Protocol
  
• AXI Protocol
  
• AXI Interconnection Architectures
  
• NIC301
  
• AMBA Designer
  
• PrimeCell VIC
  
• ARM v6 Memory Types
  
• Cortex-R4 Processor Core
  
• Cortex-R4 L1 Sub-System
  
• Cortex-R4 L2 Interfaces
  
• Cortex-R4 Error Handling Schemes
  
• Cortex-R4 Implementation
  
• Cortex-R4 Memory Protection Unit
  
• Cortex-R4 Example System
  
• Cortex-R4 Clocks, Resets & Power Management
  
• Cortex-R4 Initialization
  
• Cortex-R4 Interrupts
  
• Cortex-R4 Multi-processor Synchronization
  
• Introduction to CoreSight
  
• Cortex-R4 Invasive Debug
  
• Cortex-R4 Non-invasive Debug
  
• ARM Processor Simulation Models
  
• Cortex-R4 Integration
  

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