ARM System Developer's Guide —— Designing and Optimizing System Software

----- ARM系统开发人员指南：设计和优化系统软件

ISBN: 9781558608740 出版年：2004 页码：703 Sloss, Andrew Symes, Dominic Wright, Chris Morgan Kaufmann_RM

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