ARMv8-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 training course covers the issues involved in developing software for platforms powered by ARMv8 processors.
Prerequisites:
- Thorough knowledge of the ARMv7-A Architecture
- Familiarity with ARM assembler and C programming
- Experience of embedded system development is an advantage
Audience:
This course is aimed at software developers and system architects developing for systems powered by ARMv8 processors. It is relevant for operating system development, device drivers, low-level coding and for application software. The course assumes prior knowledge of the ARMv7-A architecture and an optional introductory day is required for teams who do not have this.
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 ARMv8-A
- AArch64 A64 ISA Overview
- A64 ISA Workbook
- AArch64 Exception Model
- ARMv8 Exception Model Workbook
- ARMv8-A Memory Management
- ARMv8-A Memory Model
- Caches and Branch Prediction
- MMU and Cache Initialization Workbook
- Barriers
- Synchronization
- Cache Coherency
- OS Support
- Booting
- Security
- Virtualization
- Power Management for Cortex-A (Optional)
- GIC Programming (Optional)
- GICv2 Workbook
- Debug (Optional)
