ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore Software Development
ARM Training Course
Details on this training course are provided below. Please contact Support for information about booking any of ARM's training courses.
Summary:
This training course covers the issues involved in developing software for platforms powered by the ARM Cortex-A5 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-A5 processor.
Length:
3+ days
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.
- Introduction to the ARM Architecture
- Cortex-A5 MPCore Overview
- Caches and Branch Prediction
- Using the MMU
- Writing C for ARM
- Booting a Cortex-A5 MPCore
- Booting Workbook
- Barriers
- OS Support
- Synchronization
- Cache Coherency
- Programming the GIC
- GIC Workbook
- Cortex-A Power Management
- Debug
- PMU Workbook
- NEON Overview
- ARM Debug and Trace
Optional Day 4:
Exploring one subject in more detail. Available topics are:
- TrustZone
- NEON
- Fast Models
