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ARM Cortex-A8 Hardware Design

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• Course Type:  Hardware

• Course Length:  4 day(s)

Summary:

This course is designed for those who are designing SOCs based around the ARM Cortex-A8 processor core. Including an introduction to the ARM product range and supporting IP, the course covers the ARM Cortex-A8 core and AXI on-chip bus architecture, integrated NEON SIMD vector processing unit, real-time trace solution, simulation models, programmer's model and instruction sets are also covered.

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 SOCs around the ARM Cortex-A8 processor core.

Modules:

• The ARM Architecture and Processor Cores
  
• ARM CPU Architectures
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Overview
  
• Memory Sub-systems, Memory Management and Memory Access
• Behaviour
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 and NEON Instruction Sets
  
• AHB Protocol
  
• AXI Protocol
  
• AXI Interconnection Architectures
  
• NIC-301 Network Interconnect
  
• AMBA Designer
  
• APB
  
• Introduction to TrustZone
  
• Introduction to IEM
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Processor Architecture
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 L2 Memory System
  
• NEON Processor Architecture
  
• ARMv6 Memory Types
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Memory Management
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Exceptions
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Booting
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Debug and trace
  
• CoreSight Design Kit for Cortex-A8
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Clocks, Resets and Power Management
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Implementation
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 Interfaces
  
• ARM Processor Simulation Models
  
• NEON Coding Examples (optional)
  

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