Course/Lab Material for Teaching Computer Org/Architecture
Development Boards
Freescale delivers a cost-effective, easy-to-use platform designed to simplify product evaluation and speed time to market with its new Quick Start development board series based on the i.MX family of multimedia applications processors.
The first in the series, the i.MX53 Quick Start board is a low-cost open source development platform. Integrated with an ARM® CortexTM™-A8 1 GHz processor, the Quick Start board includes a display controller, hardware-accelerated graphics, 1080p video decode and 720p encode as well as numerous connectivity options ideally suited for applications such as human machine interface in embedded consumer, industrial and medical markets.
Designed as a feature-rich development platform, the i.MX53 Quick Start board includes hardware design files and a board support package (BSP) containing drivers optimized for multimedia operations. This decreases time to market, provides a basic product design, and serves as a launching point for more complex designs. Additionally, the ecosystem for the board is comprised of partners who provide a variety of cost-effective debugging tools and complete development suites optimized for the Quick Start development platform.
The i.MX53 Quick Start board recieves support from Freescale and the community of i.MX developers at imxcommunity.org.
Software Tools
ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) is available now for free for qualified universities! DS-5 makes it easy to develop applications for ARM applications processors. It reduces your learning curve, shortens the development and testing cycle, and helps you build reliable applications quickly.
Textbooks
Computer Organization & Architecture: Themes and Variations
In English, by Alan Clements
Published by Newnes
ISBN-10: 1111987041
ISBN-13: 978-1111987046
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface - ARM Edition
In English, by David Patterson and John Hennessy
Fourth Edition
Published by Morgan Kaufman
ISBN-10: 8131222748
ISBN-13: 978-8131222744
ARM System-on-chip Architecture
In English, by Steve Furber
Second Edition
Published by Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-67519-6
ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques
Published by CRC
ISBN-10: 1439806101
ISBN-13: 978-1439806104
Errata List
ARM Assembly Language - an Introduction
In English, by J.R. GibsonPublished by Lulu.com
ISBN: 978-1-84753-696-9
In English, by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, and Chris WrightPublished by Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 1-55860-874-5
Free Cortex-A Series Programmers Guide (free registration required)
In English, edited by ARM
Published by ARM
Free ARMv7-AR, ARMv7-M, ARMv6-M, and ARMv5 Architecture Reference Manual Downloads
In English, edited by David Seal
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-73719-1
Teaching Materials
Teaching Slides
- Introduction to the Cortex-A8 and v7-A
- ARM Processors and Architectures Comprehensive Overiew - 2012
- ARM Processors and Architectures Fundamentals
Lab Manuals and Exercises
Official ARM Lab-in-a-Box (LiB) Package
The ARM University Program offers everything you need to teach a lab component of a Computer Org/Architecture course. If you are interested in adopting the Lab-in-a-Box (LiB) in your course, click on the Request Donation button above!
Development Boards
The FRDM-KL25Z is an ultra-low-cost development platform enabled by Kinetis L Series KL1x and KL2x MCUs families built on ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor. Features include easy access to MCU I/O, battery-ready, low-power operation, a standard-based form factor with expansion board options and a built-in debug interface for flash programming and run-control. The FRDM-KL25Z is supported by a range of Freescale and third-party development software.
Software Tools
ARM offers the Keil Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK-ARM) for ARM powered microcontrollers. It features the industry-standard compiler from ARM, the Keil µVision IDE, and sophisticated debug and data trace capabilities. MDK-ARM offers tailored support for all Cortex-M, ARM7, and ARM9 processor-based devices, and is the recommended solution for students working with standard ARM-based MCU devices. We suggest that students and universities download the free evaluation version of the tools, which offers all the features of the standard version, but with a 32 KByte object code/data limit.
Textbooks
Computer Organization & Architecture: Themes and Variations
In English, by Alan Clements
Published by Newnes
ISBN-10: 1111987041
ISBN-13: 978-1111987046
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface - ARM Edition
In English, by David Patterson and John Hennessy
Fourth Edition
Published by Morgan Kaufman
ISBN-10: 8131222748
ISBN-13: 978-8131222744
ARM System-on-chip Architecture
In English, by Steve Furber
Second Edition
Published by Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-67519-6
ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques
Published by CRC
ISBN-10: 1439806101
ISBN-13: 978-1439806104
Errata List
The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M0
In English, by Joseph Yiu Published by Newnes
ISBN-10: 0123854776
ISBN-978-0123854773
ARM Assembly Language - an Introduction
In English, by J.R. GibsonPublished by Lulu.com
ISBN: 978-1-84753-696-9
In English, by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, and Chris WrightPublished by Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 1-55860-874-5
Free ARMv7-AR, ARMv7-M, ARMv6-M, and ARMv5 Architecture Reference Manual Downloads
In English, edited by David Seal
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-73719-1
Teaching Materials
Teaching Slides
- Introduction to the Cortex-M3 and v7-M
- ARM Processors and Architectures Comprehensive Overiew - 2012
- ARM Processors and Architectures Fundamentals
Lab Manuals and Exercises
Development Boards
The BeagleBone is the low-cost, high-expansion hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard. It is a bare-bones BeagleBoard that acts as a USB or Ethernet connected expansion companion for your current BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM or works stand-alone. The BeagleBone is small even by BeagleBoard standards and with the high-performance ARM capabilities you expect from a BeagleBoard, the BeagleBone brings full-featured Linux to places it has never gone before.
The PandaBoard is a low-power, low cost single-board computer based on the Texas Instruments' 1 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore-based OMAP4430 applications processor.
The PandaBoard features a dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, a C64x DSP, and 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Primary persistent storage is via an SD Card slot allowing SDHC cards up to 32 GB to be utilized. The PandaBoard includes wired 10/100 Ethernet as well as wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth connectivity. Its size is slightly larger than the ETX/XTX Computer form factor at 4 in (100 mm) by 4.5 in (110 mm). The PandaBoard can output video signals via DVI and HDMI interfaces. It also has stereo 3.5 mm audio connectors.
PandaBoard runs the Linux kernel, with either traditional, Ubuntu, or Android user environments.
Software Tools
ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) is available now for free for qualified universities! DS-5 makes it easy to develop applications for ARM applications processors. It reduces your learning curve, shortens the development and testing cycle, and helps you build reliable applications quickly.
Textbooks
Computer Organization & Architecture: Themes and Variations
In English, by Alan Clements
Published by Newnes
ISBN-10: 1111987041
ISBN-13: 978-1111987046
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface - ARM Edition
In English, by David Patterson and John Hennessy
Fourth Edition
Published by Morgan Kaufman
ISBN-10: 8131222748
ISBN-13: 978-8131222744
ARM System-on-chip Architecture
In English, by Steve Furber
Second Edition
Published by Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-67519-6
ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques
Published by CRC
ISBN-10: 1439806101
ISBN-13: 978-1439806104
Errata List
ARM Assembly Language - an Introduction
In English, by J.R. GibsonPublished by Lulu.com
ISBN: 978-1-84753-696-9
In English, by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, and Chris WrightPublished by Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 1-55860-874-5
Free Cortex-A Series Programmers Guide (free registration required)
In English, edited by ARM
Published by ARM
Free ARMv7-AR, ARMv7-M, ARMv6-M, and ARMv5 Architecture Reference Manual Downloads
In English, edited by David Seal
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-73719-1
Teaching Materials
Teaching Slides
- Introduction to the Cortex-A8 and v7-A
- ARM Processors and Architectures Comprehensive Overiew - 2012
- ARM Processors and Architectures Fundamentals
Lab Manuals and Exercises
Development Boards
ARM Processors meet Hardware Programmability
Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC is a new class of platform which combines an industry-standard ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system with Xilinx 28nm programmable logic. This processor-centric architecture delivers a comprehensive processing platform that offers academics ASIC levels of performance and power consumption, the ease of programmability of a microprocessor and the flexibility of a FPGA.
More than Silicon: A Comprehensive Platform Offering
The value of Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC is amplified by all the elements supporting the Zynq-7000 family that includes hardware (HW) and software (SW) development tools, operating systems, and much more.
A Flexible Scalable Platform Addressing a Wide Range of Applications
The flexible nature of programmable logic and its tight integration to the ARM based processing system offers academics the possibility to add virtually any peripheral they want and create accelerators to extend the performance of the Zynq-7000 devices. This makes Zynq-7000 devices the ideal solution for a variety of academic projects.
- Digilent Zedboad
- Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs
- All Zynq Boards and Kits
- Xilinx Zynq + DS-5 Getting Connected Guide
Software Tools
ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) is available now for free for qualified universities! DS-5 makes it easy to develop applications for ARM applications processors. It reduces your learning curve, shortens the development and testing cycle, and helps you build reliable applications quickly.
Textbooks
Computer Organization & Architecture: Themes and Variations
In English, by Alan Clements
Published by Newnes
ISBN-10: 1111987041
ISBN-13: 978-1111987046
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface - ARM Edition
In English, by David Patterson and John Hennessy
Fourth Edition
Published by Morgan Kaufman
ISBN-10: 8131222748
ISBN-13: 978-8131222744
ARM System-on-chip Architecture
In English, by Steve Furber
Second Edition
Published by Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-67519-6
ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques
Published by CRC
ISBN-10: 1439806101
ISBN-13: 978-1439806104
Errata List
ARM Assembly Language - an Introduction
In English, by J.R. GibsonPublished by Lulu.com
ISBN: 978-1-84753-696-9
In English, by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, and Chris WrightPublished by Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 1-55860-874-5
Free Cortex-A Series Programmers Guide (free registration required)
In English, edited by ARM
Published by ARM
Free ARMv7-AR, ARMv7-M, ARMv6-M, and ARMv5 Architecture Reference Manual Downloads
In English, edited by David Seal
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-73719-1
Teaching Materials
Teaching Slides
- Introduction to the Cortex-A8 and v7-A
- ARM Processors and Architectures Comprehensive Overiew - 2012
- ARM Processors and Architectures Fundamentals
Application Notes for Students and Faculty
Lab Manuals and Exercises
