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RM1Cortex-M1 implementation
This course covers the Cortex-M1 ARM core targetting FPGA SoCs

Objectives

  • This course is split into 3 important parts:
    • Processor architecture
    • Software implementation
    • Hardware implementation.
  • A tutorial has been developed by ACSYS to facilitate the understanding of Cortex-M1 low level programming, therefore labs can be replayed after the course.
  • The course explains how to design a SoC based on Cortex-M1, clarifying the operation of the interconnect and the debug facilities integrated in the CPU.
A more detailed course description is available on request at formation@ac6-formation.com
  • Knowledge of ARM7/9.
  • This course does not include chapters on low level programming.
    • ACSYS offers a large set of tutorials to become familiar with RVDS, assembly level programming, compiler hints and tips.
  • More than 12 correct answers to Cortex-R prerequisites questionnaire.
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF material in English (printed for face-to-face); online over Teams.
    • Trainer assistance throughout.
  • Each session starts with a trainee check-in.
  • Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
  • Prerequisites are checked before the training.
  • Progress is assessed by quizzes at the end of sections.
  • Each trainee receives a completion certificate.
  • If a prerequisite gap appears, alternative or additional training is offered.

Course Outline

  • Programmer's model
  • Fixed memory map
  • Privilege, modes and stacks
  • Memory Protection Unit
  • Interrupt handling
  • Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller [NVIC]
  • Power management
  • Debug
  • Datapath and pipeline
  • Write buffer
  • Bit-banding
  • System timer
  • State, privilege and stacks
  • System control block
  • Different level of debug implementation
  • Exception behavior, exception return
  • Non-maskable exceptions
  • Privilege, modes and stacks
  • Fault escalation
  • Vector table
  • Data processing instructions
  • Branch and control flow instructions
  • Memory access instructions
  • Exception generating instructions
  • If...then conditional blocks
  • Exclusive load and store instructions
  • Accessing special registers
  • Memory barriers and synchronization
  • Interrupt entry / exit, timing diagrams
  • Tail chaining
  • Interrupt response, pre-emption
  • Interrupt prioritisation
  • Interrupt implementation configurability, impact on core size
  • Memory types, restriction regarding load / store multiple
  • Device and normal memory ordering
  • Access order
  • Memory barriers
  • Cortex-M1 debug features
  • Monitor mode
  • Flash patch and breakpoint features
  • Data watchpoint and trace
  • DWT registers
  • AHB-Access Port
  • Functional Integration
  • Clocking
  • Reset
  • AHD and Debug interfaces
  • Synthesis, Place and Route
  • Sign-Off
  • Implementation flow
  • Configuration options
  • RTL Validation
  • Synthesis
  • Place and route
  • Qualification
  • Purpose of this specification
  • Example of SoC based on AMBA specification
  • Differences between AMBA2.0 and AMBA3.0
  • Centralized address decoding
  • Address gating logic
  • Arbitration, bus parking
  • Single-data transactions
  • Sequential transfers
  • Retry response
  • Split response
  • AHB-lite specification
  • Read timing diagram
  • Write timing diagram
  • Operation of the AHB-to-APB bridge
  • APB3.0 new features
  • Clocking and reset
  • Bus interfaces , AMBA-3 compliance
  • Debug interface, AHB-AP programming interface
  • Connection to the TPIU
Duration
3 days
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Last update of course schedule: 27 June 2026

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