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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 Cortex-A8 Overview


• Memory Sub-systems, Memory Management and Memory Access Behaviour


• ARM Cortex-A8 and NEON Instruction Sets


• Exception Handling


• AHB Protocol


• AXI Protocol


• AXI Interconnection Architectures


• NIC-301 Network Interconnect


• APB


• Introduction to IEM


• Introduction to TrustZone


• ARM Cortex-A8 Processor Core


• ARM Cortex-A8 L2 Memory System


• NEON Processor Architecture


• ARMv6 Memory Types


• ARM Cortex-A8 Memory Management


• ARM Cortex-A8 Implementation


• ARM Cortex-A8 Clocks, Resets and Power Management


• ARM Cortex-A8 Booting


• ARM Cortex-A8 Exceptions


• ARM Cortex-A8 Debug and trace


• ARM Processor Simulation Models


• ARM Cortex-A8 Integration


• NEON Coding Examples

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