ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (Hardcover)

• No other book describes the ARM core from a system and software perspective.
• Author team combines extensive ARM software engineering experience with an in-depth knowledge of ARM developer needs.
• Practical, executable code is fully explained in the book and available on the publisher’s Website.
• Includes a simple embedded operating system.

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.

• 沒有其他書籍從系統和軟體的角度描述ARM核心。


• 作者團隊結合了豐富的ARM軟體工程經驗和對ARM開發者需求的深入了解。


• 書中詳細解釋了實用的可執行程式碼，並可在出版商的網站上獲得。


• 包含一個簡單的嵌入式作業系統。

在過去的十年中，ARM架構已成為全球最普及的架構之一，超過20億個基於ARM的處理器嵌入在從手機到汽車制動系統等各種產品中。全球範圍內的ARM開發者社群包括軟體開發人員、系統設計師和硬體工程師。迄今為止，還沒有一本書直接滿足他們開發基於ARM系統的系統和軟體的需求。本書填補了這一空白。

本書從開發者的角度全面描述了ARM核心的運作，並明確強調軟體。它不僅展示了如何使用C和組合語言編寫高效的ARM軟體，還介紹了如何優化程式碼。書中的範例程式碼可以整合到商業產品中，或用作快速創建高效軟體的模板。

本書涵蓋了ARM和Thumb指令集，介紹了英特爾的XScale處理器，概述了ARM架構的不同版本之間的區別，演示了如何實現DSP算法，解釋了處理ARM核心周圍的快取技術以及最有效的記憶體管理技術。最後一章展望了ARM架構的未來，考慮到ARMv6，這是指令集的最新變化，旨在改善架構的DSP和媒體處理能力。