• Looking for ARM A15 simulator or compiler details on TI Chip

    Hello , 

    We are working on TI chip which holds A15 as one of the main core in the HW . We are looking for some technical support on A15 . 

    I appreciate someone from technical team could reach and help me out on that at the earliest . 

    I will share further…

  • ARMV7A virtualization

    Hi,

    I am working on a hardware platform having 2 Cortex-A15 cores (with virtualization extensions). For routing IRQ's at PL2 to PL3 ( to hypervisor mode), I am setting HCR.IMO bit and it is working fine for core-0. If I set the HCR.IMO for core-1, will…

  • Can I place the System MMU (SMMU-400) before the DRAM Memory Controller (DMC-400)?

    Hi all,

     

    I have two A15 CPUs and 1GByte of DRAM memory. I want to dedicate 0.5GByte of memory to each CPU. Would the following system work?

     

    (A15)  (A15)

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  • SMP Linux on a Minimal Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A15 System

    Previously, I explained how to create a minimal, single-core ARM® Cortex™-A15 system running Linux®. In this article I will update the hardware design to use a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and run SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) Linux. While the first…

  • Running the Latest Linux Kernel on a Minimal ARM Cortex-A15 System

    Linux® has become a popular operating system in embedded products, and as a result is experiencing increased usage for system design and verification. This means that a new set of people, who are not traditional embedded software engineers, need to learn…

  • ARMv7-A - Power to the People

    Recently, I wrote an article called “Navigating the Cortex Maze” (Navigating the Cortex Maze) That was intended as an easy way-in to the ARM processor range, covering Cortex-A (architecture ARMv7-A), Cortex-R (ARMv7-R) and Cortex-M (ARMv7…