ARM Based Development. Instructor: S. Chandramouleeswaran, Embedded Systems Professional. The goal of this course is to teach all the assembly instructions of ARM7TDMI processor and its internal functioning, enabling students to understand any other processor architectures at ease.

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1027 years, 8 months

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37

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This course provides good understanding of how coprocessors are interfaced with ARM core and how coprocessors can be programmed; provides an in-depth understanding of the Floating point representation and the VFP coprocessor implementation in particular; covers the details of cache architectures, AMBA bus, virtual memory management concepts with the detailed explanation on the Memory Management Unit (MMU) and Memory Protection Unit (MPU); gives good overview of various peripherals used with ARM core and it basic functioning; and touches upon later versions of ARM7 processor and their features and new developments. (from nptel.ac.in)

Course Currilcum

    • Lecture 01 – Types of Computer Architectures, ISA’s and ARM History Unlimited
    • Lecture 02 – Embedded System Software and Hardware, Stack Implementation in ARM, Endianness, Condition Codes Unlimited
    • Lecture 03 – Processor Core vs CPU Core, ARM7TDMI Interface Signals, Memory Interface, Bus Cycle Types, Register Set, Operational Modes Unlimited
    • Lecture 04 – Instruction Format, ARM Core Data Flow Model, ARM 3 Stage Pipeline, ARM Family Attribute Comparison Unlimited
    • Lecture 05 – ARM 5 Stage Pipeline, Pipeline Hazards, Data Forwarding – a Hardware Solution Unlimited
    • Lecture 06 – ARM ISA and Processor Variants, Different Types of Instructions, ARM Instruction Set, Data Processing Instructions Unlimited
    • Lecture 07 – Shift Operations, Shift Operations using RS Lower Byte, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 08 – Data Processing Instructions Unlimited
    • Lecture 09 – Addressing Mode 1, Addressing Mode 2 Unlimited
    • Lecture 10 – Addressing Mode 2, LDR/STR, Addressing Mode 3 with Examples Unlimited
    • Lecture 11 – Instruction Timing, Addressing Mode 4 with Examples Unlimited
    • Lecture 12 – Swap Instructions, Swap Register related Instructions, Loading Constants Unlimited
    • Lecture 13 – Program Control Flow, Control Flow Instructions, B and BL Instructions, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 14 – Interrupts and Exceptions, Exception Handlers, Reset Handling Unlimited
    • Lecture 15 – Aborts, Software Interrupt Instruction, Undefined Instruction Exception Unlimited
    • Lecture 16 – Interrupt Latency, Multiply Instructions, Instruction Set Examples Unlimited
    • Lecture 17 – Thumb State, Thumb Programmers Model, Thumb Implementation, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 18 – Thumb Instructions, Interrupt Processing Unlimited
    • Lecture 19 – Interrupt Handling Schemes, Examples of Interrupt Handlers Unlimited
    • Lecture 20 – Coprocessors Unlimited
    • Lecture 21 – Coprocessor Instructions, Data Processing Instruction, Data Transfers, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 22 – Number Representations, Floating Point Representation Unlimited
    • Lecture 23 – Flynn’s Taxonomy, SIMD and Vector Processors, Vector Floating Point Processor … Unlimited
    • Lecture 24 – Memory Technologies, Need for Memory Hierarchy, Hierarchical Memory … Unlimited
    • Lecture 25 – Cache Memory, Mapping Functions Unlimited
    • Lecture 26 – Cache Design, Unified or Split Cache, Multiple Level of Caches, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 27 – Processes, Memory Map, Protected Systems, ARM Systems with MPU, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 28 – Physical vs Virtual Memory, Paging, Segmentation Unlimited
    • Lecture 29 – MMU Advantage, Virtual Memory Translation, Multitasking with MMU, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 30 – ARM Development Environment, ARM Procedure Call Standard (APCS) Unlimited
    • Lecture 31 – Example C Program Unlimited
    • Lecture 32 – Embedded Software Development, Image Structure, Linker Inputs and … Unlimited
    • Lecture 33 – AMBA Overview, Typical AMBA based Microcontroller, AHB Bus Features, … Unlimited
    • Lecture 34 – DMA, Peripherals, Programming Peripherals in ARM Unlimited
    • Lecture 35 – DMA: Direct Memory Access Unlimited
    • Lecture 36 – Protocols (I2C, SPI), UART, GPIO Unlimited
    • Lecture 37 – ARM ISAs, ARMv5, ARMv6, ARMv7, Big/Little Technology, ARMv8 Unlimited