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ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore Software Development

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• Course Type:  Software

• Course Length (approx):  3+ day(s)

Summary:

This training course covers the issues involved in developing software for platforms powered by the ARM Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A9 MPCore application processors.

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of ARMv7-A exception model
  
• Familiarity with ARM assembler and C programming
  
• Experience of embedded system development is helpful but not essential

Audience:

This course is aimed at software developers writing low level and bare-metal code for ARMv7-A processors, concentrating on the Cortex-A9 processor.

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
  
• Cortex-A9 MPCore Overview
  
• Caches and Branch Prediction
  
• Using the MMU
  
• Writing C for ARM
  
• Booting a Cortex-A9 MPCore
  
• Booting Workbook
  
• Barriers
  
• OS Support
  
• Synchronization
  
• Cache Coherency
  
• Programming the GIC
  
• GIC Workbook
  
• Cortex-A Power Management
  
• Debug
  
• PMU Workbook
  
• NEON Overview
  
• TrustZone

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

• TrustZone
  
• NEON
  
• Fast Models

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