Arm Architecture Reference Manual [Paperback]

Dave Jagger (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997

An authoritative, insider's guide to the world's most widely-used 32-bit RISC microprocessor architecture.
-- Presents both an architecture overview and a programmer's model.
-- Introduces the ARM instruction set and code sequences.
-- ARM RISC chips power 90% of the world's mobile phones -- and are expected to be at the heart of many low-cost network computer solutions.

This is the only complete guide to ARM, the world's most widely-available 32-bit RISC microprocessor architecture.

Produced by the architects that are actively working on the ARM specification, this book contains detailed information about all versions of the ARM and ThumbTM instruction sets, the memory management and cache functions, and optimized code examples. Both an architectural overview and programmer's model are presented. Coverage also includes 26-bit architectures and the System Control Coprocessor.

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This is the only complete guide to ARM, the world's most widely-available 32-bit RISC microprocessor architecture.Produced by the architects that are actively working on the ARM specification, this book contains detailed information about all versions of the ARM and ThumbTM instruction sets, the memory management and cache functions, and optimized code examples. Both an architectural overview and programmer's model are presented. Coverage also includes 26-bit architectures and the System Control Coprocessor.All ARM programmers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137362994
• ISBN-13: 978-0137362998
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,261,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta have it, March 17, 1999

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This review is from: Arm Architecture Reference Manual (Paperback)

If you work with an ARM processor of any type, you simply must have this book. It is *the* reference, -- the best source of exact instruction details, as well as memory management unit details. If you need an introduction to the ARM family, Furber's "ARM System Architecture" makes a better tutorial introduction, but if you're writing code for the ARM, you need this one.

3.0 out of 5 stars Asembly Language, December 24, 2010

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This review is from: Arm Architecture Reference Manual (Paperback)

This book has nothing to do with the Architecture of ARM. It is a detailed assembly language. User's manuals should show and discuss registers that setup the processors. This book has nothing about what makes the processor to function such as UART, SPI ports..

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clear, competent, well organized., July 16, 2004

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This review is from: Arm Architecture Reference Manual (Paperback)

This is a completely adequate reference for the basic ARM architecture, including the Thumb instruction set.

This is a reference book, not an instruction manual - you'll probably be happiest with this book if you already know at least one or two other assembly languages. Given that background, you might like the ARM ISP. It's a very regular RISC. The Thumb subset is even more stripped-down, but lets you pack parts of you code almost twice as densely as usual.

If you've gotten this far, you already know that there are dozens of ARM implementations, with different add-ons and special features. This, of course, can't handle your special circumstance. Still, it's my favortie presentation of the core ARM instruction set.

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