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Designing and Optimizing System Software
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By
Andrew Sloss, ARM, Los Gatos, CA
Dominic Symes, ARM, Cambridge, UK
Chris Wright, Ultimodule Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Description
Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion
ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers
in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date no book
has directly addressed their need to develop the system and software for an ARM-based system. This text fills that gap.
This book provides
a comprehensive description of the operation of the ARM core from a developer?s perspective with a clear emphasis on software. It demonstrates
not only how to write efficient ARM software in C and assembly but also how to optimize code. Example code throughout the book can be
integrated into commercial products or used as templates to enable quick creation of productive software.
The book covers both the
ARM and Thumb instruction sets, covers Intel's XScale Processors, outlines distinctions among the versions of the ARM architecture, demonstrates
how to implement DSP algorithms, explains exception and interrupt handling, describes the cache technologies that surround the ARM cores
as well as the most efficient memory management techniques. A final chapter looks forward to the future of the ARM architecture considering
ARMv6, the latest change to the instruction set, which has been designed to improve the DSP and media processing capabilities of the
architecture.
Audience
two key audiences for the book: ARM partners, the semi-conductor companies that design chips using the ARM architecture; and product design
companies (perhaps a division within the semi-conductor companies), the companies that use the resulting chip in a product design, such
as a PDA.
Contents
Table of Contents:
1. ARM Embedded Systems
1.1 The RISC Design Philosophy
1.2 The ARM Design Philosophy
1.3 Embedded System Hardware
1.4 Embedded System Software
1.5 Summary
2 ARM Processor Fundamentals
2.1 Registers
2.2 Current Program Status Register
2.3 Pipeline
2.4 Exceptions, Interrupts, and the Vector Table
2.5 Core Extensions
2.6 Architecture Revisions
2.7 ARM Processor Families
2.8 Summary
3 Introduction to the ARM Instruction Set
3.1 Data Processing Instructions
3.2 Branch Instructions
3.3 Load-Store Instructions
3.4
Software Interrupt Instruction
3.5 Program Status Register Instructions
3.6 Loading Constants
3.7 ARMv5E Extensions
3.8 Conditional
Execution
3.9 Summary
4 Introduction to the Thumb Instruction Set
4.1 Thumb Register Usage
4.2 ARM-Thumb Interworking
4.3 Other Branch
Instructions
4.4 Data Processing Instructions
4.5 Single-Register Load-Store Instructions
4.6 Multiple-Register Load-Store Instructions
4.7 Stack Instructions
4.8 Software Interrupt Instruction
4.9 Summary
5 Efficient C Programming
5.1 Overview of C Compilers and Optimization
5.2 Basic C Data Types
5.3 C Looping Structures
5.4 Register Allocation
5.5 Function Calls
5.6 Pointer Aliasing
5.7 Structure Arrangement
5.8 Bit-fields
5.9 Unaligned Data and Endianness
5.10 Division
5.11 Floating Point
5.12 Inline Functions and Inline Assembly
5.13 Portability
Issues
5.14 Summary
6 Writing and Optimizing ARM Assembly Code
6.1 Writing Assembly Code
6.2 Profiling and Cycle Counting
6.3 Instruction
Scheduling
6.4 Register Allocation
6.5 Conditional Execution
6.6 Looping Constructs
6.7 Bit Manipulation
6.8 Efficient Switches
6.9
Handling Unaligned Data
6.10 Summary
7 Optimized Primitives
7.1 Double-Precision Integer Multiplication
7.2 Integer Normalization
and Count Leading Zeros
7.3 Division
7.4 Square Roots
7.5 Transcendental Functions: log, exp, sin, cos
7.6 Endian Reversal and Bit
Operations
7.7 Saturated and Rounded Arithmetic
7.8 Random Number Generation
7.9 Summary
8 Digital Signal Processing
8.1 Representing
a Digital Signal
8.2 Introduction to DSP on the ARM
8.3 FIR filters
8.4 IIR Filters
8.5 The Discrete Fourier Transform
8.6 Summary
9 Exception and Interruput Handling
9.1 Exception Handling
9.2 Interrupts
9.3 Interrupt Handling Schemes
9.4 Summary
10 Firmware
10.1
Firmware and Bootloader
10.2 Example: Sandstone
10.3 Summary
11 Embedded Operating Systems
11.1 Fundamental Components
11.2 Example:
Simple Little Operating System
11.3 Summary
12 Caches
12.1 The Memory Hierarchy and Cache Memory
12.2 Cache Architecture
12.3 Cache
Policy
12.4 Coprocessor 15 and Caches
12.5 Flushing and Cleaning Cache Memory
12.6 Cache Lockdown
12.7 Caches and Software Performance
12.8 Summary
13 Memory Protection Units
13.1 Protected Regions
13.2 Initializing the MPU, Caches, and Write Buffer
13.3 Demonstration
of an MPU system
13.4 Summary
14 Memory Management Units
14.1 Moving from an MPU to an MMU
14.2 How Virtual Memory Works
14.3 Details
of the ARM MMU
14.4 Page Tables
14.5 The Translation Lookaside Buffer
14.6 Domains and Memory Access Permission
14.7 The Caches and
Write Buffer
14.8 Coprocessor 15 and MMU Configuration
14.9 The Fast Context Switch Extension
14.10 Demonstration: A Small Virtual
Memory System
14.11 The Demonstration as mmuSLOS
14.12 Summary
15 The Future of the Architecture
by John Rayfield
15.1 Advanced
DSP and SIMD Support in ARMv6
15.2 System and Multiprocessor Support Additions to ARMv6
15.3 ARMv6 Implementations
15.4 Future Technologies
beyond ARMv6
15.5 Conclusions
Appendix A: ARM and Thumb Assembler Instructions
Appendix: B ARM and Thumb Instruction Encodings
Appendix
C: Processors and Architecture
Appendix D: Instruction Cycle Timings
Appendix E: Suggested Reading
Index
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Hardbound, 689 pages, publication date: MAR-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-874-0
ISBN-10: 1-55860-874-5
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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