Arm System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software Contributor(s): Sloss, Andrew (Author), Symes, Dominic (Author), Wright, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 1558608745 ISBN-13: 9781558608740 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers OUR PRICE: $85.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become the most pervasive 32-bit architecture in the world. In this new developer's guide, the authors provide a comprehensive text describing the operation of the ARM core from a product developer's perspective with a clear emphasis on software. The book demonstrates not only how to write efficient ARM software in C and assembler but also how to optimize code. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Systems Architecture - General - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General - Computers | Programming - General |
Dewey: 005.1 |
LCCN: 2004040366 |
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann Computer Architecture and Design |
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 7.8" W x 9.3" (2.90 lbs) 704 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |