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ARM Cortex-A8 Software Development

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• Course Type:  Software

• Course Length (approx):  3+ day(s)

Summary:

This course is designed for software engineers designing applications for platforms based around the ARM Cortex-A8 processor core.

Prerequisites:

• Some knowledge of embedded systems
  
• Familiarity with embedded programming in C and assembler
  
• A basic awareness of ARM is useful but not essential

Audience:

Software design engineers who need to understand the issues involved when developing application software for the ARM Cortex-A8 processor core.

Modules:

Optional Day 0:
ARM Architecture Fundamentals.
Recommended for audiences developing low level code on ARM for the first time. This optional day introduces the ARMv7-A ISA, exception model and memory model.

Days 1-3:

• Introduction to the ARM Architecture
  
• Software Engineers' Guide to the Cortex-A8
  
• Caches and Branch Prediction
  
• Using the MMU
  
• Writing C for ARM
  
• Barriers
  
• OS Support
  
• Synchronization
  
• Programming the GIC
  
• Cortex-A Power Management
  
• Debug
  
• NEON Overview
  
• TrustZone

Optional Day 4:
Exploring one subject in more detail. Available topics are:

• TrustZone
  
• NEON
  
• Fast Models

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