• What is the difference between PoC and PoU for Cortex-A7 MPCore?
    hi, experts: ARM ARM manual introduces a concept PoC and PoU for cache maintanance operations. Based on Cortex-A7 MPCore TRM and ARM ARM manual, i got below conclusion: 1. PoC points to external DRAM...
  • Break Points and Watch Points
    Greetings,                Sir,i am working on SWD, after  Research on Break Point & Watch Point i found One Thing That There are Some Comparators will Do These Things but I am not Very Sure That How These...
  • Usage of gathering and reordering in the ARMv8
    Hi all, Kindly suggest some logical code to realize the gathering and re-ordering attribute in the ARMv8. How this attribute can be best utilized for actual use case scenarios ?
  • how does ARMv8 switch to run application(EL0) from kernel(EL1)?
    hi experts, I am studying the ARMv8 exception levels. I have a question about ELs. EL1 is described to run OS kernel and EL0 is application level.    The exception levels change only occur on exception...
  • why some instructions are not required to be  explicitly synchronized ?
    Dear all: In "ARM® Architecture Reference Manual ARMv8", B2.6.5 Concurrent modification and execution of instructions , it says some instructions, such as " B, BL, NOP, BRK, SVC, HVC, and SMC " dont need...