Microcontroller ARMv8-A 64-bit Architecture Training
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Multisoft Systems is providing Microcontroller ARMv8-A 64-bit Architecture Training for software developers and system architects who develop systems powered by ARMv8-A processors. This is a blend of hands-on classes and practical examples. Designed by certified subject matter experts, this course highlights Calling conventions, ARM architecture, Memory Model, Paging, TrustZone overview, Floating point, Neon, and Power management.
To pursue this Microcontroller ARMv8-A 64-bit Architecture Training, you need to carry basic knowledge of ARM 32-bit v7 Architecture and general computer architecture. You will become a master of the fundamentals and functionalities of 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture after pursuing this course. It will tell you the additions in v9-A architecture along with the enhancements 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6.
- What is Calling conventions?
- What are Neon and Floating point?
- What are Debug and Power management?
- What is ARM architecture (ARMv8.x-A and ARMv9.x-A-A)?
- What is support for the execution of 32-bit ARMv7-A code?
- How to work with Exception, Interrupt handling, and the Exception Levels?
- What is TrustZone overview (Secure monitor at Exception Level 3 plus secure world)?
- What is 64-bit ISA (registers, instruction set, system instructions, etc)?
- How to work with the Memory model and paging?
- 32 Hrs. Instructor-led Online Training
- Recorded Videos After Training
- Digital Learning Material
- Course Completion Certificate
- Lifetime e-Learning Access
- 24x7 After Training Support
- Software Developers
- System Architects who develop Cortex-A53, Cortex-A57, and other ARMv8-A processors
- You are supposed to carry basic knowledge of ARM 32-bit v7 Architecture and general computer architecture to pursue this Microcontroller ARMv8-A 64-bit Architecture Training.
Module 1: Introduction to ARM 64-bit Architecture
Module 2: ARM architecture profiles, what is v8-A and the other architecture profiles
Module 3: ARM architecture extensions to v8-A, the v8.1A, v8.2-A, etc and v9-A
Module 4: v8-A introduction and rational
Module 5: Support for v7 legacy code
- AArch32 and AArch64 state
- v7 instruction set changes
- Deprecation
- Additional features (some new 64-bit features have also been added as new features available to 32-bit execution)
Module 6: 64-bit platform architecture overview
- Sample SoC
- MP Core
- Interconnect (ACE or CHI)
- Coherency and the interconnect
- Distributed interrupt controller
- Role of firmware
- Booting
Module 7: A64 ISA
Module 8: Integer registers
Module 9: Instruction set
- Integer operations
- Memory operations
- Stack
- System instructions
- System control registers
- Relationship to v7 support and co-processors
- Calling conventions
- Memory access (DRAM and device)
- Ordering model
- Barriers
- Semaphores
- Cache management
- Floating point, advanced SIMD, crypto
- Registers and instructions
Exception levels
- The 4 exception levels
- Stack model, handler and thread
- Vector table
- Core implementation choices
- Switching AArch32 and AArch64 state
Exception and interrupt handling
- Control of delivery of exceptions and interrupts
- Syndrome registers
- Switching exception levels
- Return from exception
Paging
- Memory management with page tables
- 4K, 16K and 64K granules
- Page sizes
- Features achieved with page tables, such as execute never
- Address space trickery – fields in pointers that are not part of the address, such as tags and pointer authentication
- TLB management
Module 10: EL2 Overview
- Processor features intended for virtualization
- Use of exception levels
- Memory management
- Second level page tables
- Memory partitioning
- I/O MMU (SMMU)
- The use of EL2 for UEFI execution during boot
- Addition of Secure EL2 to the architecture
Module 11: Caches
- Hardware cache coherency
- Software responsibilities
- Cache control in software
- Security (TrustZone)
- TrustZone functionality
Module 12: Secure memory
- Links to TrustZone in other architectures
- 32-bit or 64-bit TrustZone
- Implications on exception levels, and the addition of secure EL2
- Switching bitness of TrustZone
- Dynamic TrustZone, also called Realms, is part of ARM’s Confidential Computer Architecture
Module 13: Other topics
- Core power management, external power controller
- Power modes (dormant, shutdown)
- WFI, WFE, SEV
- Debug (hardware and software based debug)
- RAS – Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
- Boot process