Prerequisites:

• Introductory knowledge of either the A, R, or M profile of the Arm architecture.

Audience:

The course is aimed at Hardware Engineers needing an understanding processor signal behaviors. The course will also benefit software and implementation engineers.

Delivery Method:

• Online

Length:

• 1 hour

Modules:

1. Introduction

   • Topic overview

   • Simple Sequential Model

2. Instruction fetching optimizations

   • Intro to instruction fetching optimizations

   • Branch prediction overview

   • Branch prediction method (return stack)

   • Branch prediction method (conditional branch prediction)

   • Effects of branch prediction

3. Data processing optimizations
   

   • Data processing optimizations - overview
   • Multiple execution pipelines
   • Speculative execution
   • Register dependencies
   • Cortex-A, R, and M interrupt behaviors

4. Data memory access optimizations

   • Data memory access optimizations - overview

   • Caching (cache eviction)

   • Caching (cache pre-fetching performance

   • Caching (cache maintenance - multi-caching)

   • Merging

   • Re-ordering overview

   • Re-ordering commands

   • ISB and DSB example

   • Barriers and speculative access

5. Summary

   • Cortex-A summary

   • Cortex-R summary

   • Cortex-M summary

Language: This course is presented in English.

Delivery Method: Bitesized video content

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