ARM11 ™ Derivatives - Architectural Overview of the HighEnd 32-Bit Single-Chip Microcontrollers

The ARM11 ™ embedded microcontroller core is a member of the Advanced RISC Machines (ARM®) family of general purpose 32-bit microprocessors, which offer high performance and very low power consumption. Its outstanding feature is the 16-bit Thumb® subset of the most commonly used 32-bit instructions. These are expanded at run time with no degradation of system performance. This gives 16-bit code density (saving memory area and cost) coupled with 32-bit processor performance.

The ARM architecture is based on Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles, and the instruction set and related decode mechanism are much simpler than those of microprogrammed Complex Instruction Set Computers. This simplicity results in a high instruction throughput and impressive real-time interrupt response from a small and cost-effective chip.

Pipelining is employed so that all parts of the processing and memory systems can operate continuously. Typically, while one instruction is being executed, its successor is being decoded, and a third instruction is being fetched from memory.

The ARM memory interface has been designed to allow the performance potential to be realized without incurring high costs in the memory system. Speed-critical control signals are pipelined to allow system control functions to be implemented in standard low-power logic, and these control signals facilitate the exploitation of the fast local access modes offered by industry standard dynamic RAMs.

Supported ARM cores

ARM11MP
ARM1136JF-S

Supported Derivatives by Universal Debug Engine

Freescale iMX31

UDE - Universal Debug Engine

UDE - Universal Debug Engine - is a flexible debug platform with Multi-core debugging. This development workbench is available for Infineon’s 16-bit architecture SAB C16x, C166CBC, C166S V2, the 32-bit TriCore TC1766, TC1796 as well the ST10F16x, ST10F26x and ST10F280 architecture from STMicroelectronics, the ARM7, ARM9, PowerPC and XScale derivatives.

It lets you organize your projects, supports you while building applications and lets you run and test your software in a convenient and cost-efficient way. UDE represents a completely new debugger architecture and tool concept based on a customizable set of standard components and core specific add-ons.

JTAG is fully supported by UDE offering direct high-speed access to the MCUs internal units (registers, control unit...) and features like breakpoints, stepping in ROM/FLASH as well as complex trigger conditions without any external hardware or software resources. OCDS L2 and MCDS instruction trace capability is available for members of the TriCore family. ETM and ETB instruction trace is available for ARM derivatives. Target ROM monitor and Bootstrap loader / RAM monitor solutions for a flexible access via a wide variety of debug channels (ASC, SSC, 3-PIN, CAN) are available.

UDE MemTool as a part of UDE is designed for On-Chip and On-Board FLASH/OTP programming with microcontroller systems using SAB C16x, C166CBC, C166S-V2, XC16x, ST10, TriCore, ARM7, ARM9, PowerPC and XScale derivatives.

The UDE demo version within a Starterkit for ARM9 TDMI is available.

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ARM11 ™ Derivatives - Architectural Overview of the HighEnd 32-Bit Single-Chip Microcontrollers

Supported ARM cores

Supported Derivatives by Universal Debug Engine

UDE - Universal Debug Engine

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