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Fundamentals of Bare-Metal Code Development with the Altera Cyclone V FPGAs

Course id: 0053

Synopsis

System-on-Chip (SoC) -- which integrates reconfigurable hardware and software -- is integral to the development of miniature, high speed systems. The integration of the ubiquitous ARM processor and FPGA on the single chip has made ultra high speed computation feasible for many space and power constrained systems. SoC development has a steep learning curve fraught with numerous obstacles and caveats due to the complex nature of having reconfigurable hardware interact with software. This intensive course covers the fundamentals of SoC development from the software perspective of bare-metal implementations on the ARM Cortex-A processor. Participants will have practical experiences using the ARM-NONE-EABI toolset.

What you will learn

This course concentrates on the theoretical and practical knowledge to allow participants to achieve the following learning outcomes. Upon completing the course, participants would be able to:

Understand the synergy between the FPGA and the ARM processor
Use the open source ARM-NONE-EABI toolset
Know the compilation, assembling and linking process
Know C constructs crucial for embedded development (refresher)
Develop rudimentary drivers for interfacing memory mapped peripherals

Who should attend

This course is particularly suited for engineers who are planning/starting to develop program code for the Altera Cyclone V platform.

Prerequisite

Participants are required to know how to program in C, and should have a background in electronics and embedded systems.

Course methodology

This course is presented in a workshop style with example-led lectures interlaced with demonstrations and hands-on practical for maximum understanding.

Course duration

3 days.

Course structure

Introduction
- Overview of the ARM Cortex-A processor
- Getting started with the ARM-NONE-EABI environment
- Hands-on practical 1: Getting Started with ARM-NONE-EABI
The Compilation Process
- Code compilation and assembling
- Understanding the linking process
- Hands-on practical 2: Investigating Compilation and Linking
Booting Code
- Booting process
- Controlling the ARM bootloader
- Hands-on practical 3: Booting Process and the Bootloader
- Code partitioning on removable storage
Data types
- char, int, void, storage classes, scope
Typecasting
- Explicit typecasting methods, loss of precision/signedness, integer promotion, POSIX types
- Hands-on practical 4: Data types and Typecasting
Operators
- Bitwise, increment, decrement, precedence and associativity, short circuit expressions
- Hands-on practical 5: Operators
Arrays
- Declaration, storage, access
- Hands-on practical 6: Arrays
Pointers
- Referencing, dereferencing, storage, void pointer, parameter passing
- Hands-on practical 7: Pointers
Accessing Special Function Registers
- Accessing specific memory locations
- Hands-on practical 8: Enumerating Special Function Registers
Structures and Unions
- Structures: storage, declaration, access
- Unions: storage, dangers, usage
- Hands-on practical 9: Complex SFR Enumeration
Fundamentals of Driver Development
- What is a driver
- Requirements for a simple driver
- Hands-on practical 10: Bare-metal Driver Development

Course Schedule

Consultancy

Technical Consultancy

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