ARMv7-A 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 course covers the knowledge required for those developing software for platforms powered by ARMv7-A processors.
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of ARMv7-A exception model (unless taking day 0)
- 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.
Length:
3+ days
Modules:
Optional Day 0:
Introduction to ARMv7-A
Required for audiences who do not have prior knowledge of the ARMv7-A Architecture, programmer's model, instruction sets, memory management and exception handling.
- Introduction to the ARM Architecture
- Caches and Branch Prediction
- Using the MMU
- TrustZone
- Synchronization
- Programming the GIC
- GIC Workbook
- Cortex-A Power Management
- Cache Coherency
- OS Support
- Barriers
- Multi-Cluster
- Debug
- PMU Workbook
- Writing C for ARM
- NEON Overview
- Virtualization
