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ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) By Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright,

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Number Of Pages: 800

Publication Date: 2004-03-25

Sales Rank: 94854

ISBN / ASIN: 1558608745

EAN: 9781558608740

Binding: Hardcover

Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann

Studio: Morgan Kaufmann

Average Rating: 4.5

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 developers 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. * 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. Review:

A System Software Engineer This is the best book I've seen for the ARM series of processors. I have developed with many processors, on and off the Job and am now planning to develop for the ARM7 and ARM9 processors; particularly the AT91 and the AT91SAM7 series of processors by ATMEL. Base on the processors' hardware specs they are perfect for the small time developer. But, when looking the ARM's instruction set, it appears that programming them requires a steep learning curve. This book will easily reduce my learning curve, at the very least, by more than half. It is clear, comprehensive, and to the point. In a world that has strict requiresments on performance, power, as well as development time, a developer has to ARM himself. This book will show you how to do just that. Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

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