ARM system-on-chip architecture (second edition © 2000 by Steve Furber - ADDISON-WESLEY)



contains the following data sheets :

1/ An Introduction to Processor Design
 - Processor Architecture and organization
 - Abstraction in hardware design
 - MU0 - a simple processor
 - instruction set design
 - Processor design trade-offs
 - The reduced Instruction Set Computer
 - Design for low power consumption
 - Examples and exercises

2/ The ARM Architecture
 - The Acorn RISC Machine
 - Architectural inheritance
 - The ARM's programmer's model
 - Examples and exercises


3/ ARM Assembly language Programming
 - Data processing instructions
 - Data transfer instructions
 - Control flow instructions
 - Writing simple assembly language programs
 - Examples and exercises


4/ Organization and Implementation
 - 3-stage pipeline ARM Organization
 - 5-stage pipeline organization
 - ARM instruction execution
 - ARM implementation
 - The ARM coprocessor interface
 - Examples and exercises



5/ The ARM Instruction Set
 - Introduction
 - Exceptions
 - Conditional execution
 - Branch and Branch with Link and eXchange (BX, BLX)
 - Software Interrupts (SWI)
 - Data processing instructions
 - Multiply instructions
 - Count leading zeros (CLZ - architecture v5T only)
 - Single word and unsigned byte data transfer instructions
 - Half-word and signed byte data transfer instructions
 - Multiple register transfer instructions (SWP)
 - Status register transfer instructions
 - Coprocessor instructions
 - Coprocessor data operations
 - Coprocessor data transfers
 - Coprocessor register transfers
 - Breakpoint instruction (BRK - architecture v5T only)
 - Unused instruction space
 - Memory faults
 - ARM architecture variants
 - Example and exercises



6/ Architectural Support for High-Level Languages
 - Abstraction in software design
 - data types
 - Floating-point data types
 - The ARM floating-point architecture
 - Expressions
 - Conditional statements
 - Loops
 - Functions and procedures
 - Use of memory
 - Run-time environment
 - Example and Exercises


7/ The Thumb Instruction Set
 - The Thumb bit in the CPSR
 - The Thumb programmer's model
 - Thumb branch instructions
 - Thumb software interrupt instructions
 - Thumb single register data transfer instructions
 - Thumb multiple register data transfer instructions
 - Thumb breakpoint instruction
 - Thumb implementation
 - Thumb applications
 - Example and exercises




8/ Architectural Support for System Development
 - The ARM memory interface
 - The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA)
 - The ARM reference peripheral specification
 - Hardware system prototyping tools
 - The ARMulator
 - The JTAG boundary scan test architecture
 - Embedded Trace
 - Signal processing support
 - Example and exercises



9/ ARM Processor Cores
 - ARM7TDMI
 - ARM8
 - ARM9TDMI
 - ARM10TDMI
 - Discussion
 - Example and exercises


10/ Memory hierarchy
 - Memory size and speed
 - on-chip memory
 - Caches
 - Cache design - an example
 - Memory management
 - Example and exercises



11/ Architectural Support for Operating Systems
 - An introduction to operating systems
 - The ARM system control coprocessor
 - CP15 protection unit registers 
 - ARM MMU architecture
 - Synchronization
 - Context switching
 - Input/Output
 - Example and exercises





12/ ARM CPU Cores
 - The ARM710T, ARM720T and ARM740T
 - The ARM810
 - The StrongARM SA-110
 - The ARM920T and ARM940T
 - The ARM946E-S and ARM966E-S
 - The ARM1020E
 - Discussions
 - Example and exercises



13/ Embedded ARM Applications
 - The VLSI Ruby II Advanced Communication Processor
 - The VLSI ISDN Subsriber Processor
 - The OneC(tm) VWS22100 GSM chip
 - The Ericsson-VLSI Bluetooth Baseband Controller
 - The ARM7500 and ARM7500FE
 - The ARM7100
 - The SA-1100
 - Examples and exercises




14/ The AMULET Asynchronous ARM Processors
 - Self-timed design
 - AMULET1
 - AMULET2
 - AMULET2e
 - AMULET3
 - The DRACO telecommunications controller
 - A self-timed future?
 - Example and exercises



Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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