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This two-day course is structured to provide software designers with a catalog of OS implementation options including hypervisors, various Linux implementations, booting and configurating a system, and power management for the Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC family.
Who Should Attend? Software developers interested in understanding the OS and other capabilities of the Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC device.
Prerequisites
- General understanding of embedded and real-time operating systems
- Familiarity with issues related to implementing a complex embedded system
Software Tools
- Vivado Design Suite 2018.3
- May require special Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC family license
Hardware Emulation Environment
- VirtualBox
- QEMU
- Ubantu desktop
- PetaLinux
The course focuses on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture. The 2017.3 version of this class does not use a physical board, but rather a local emulation environment and the Vivado Design Suite.
After completing this comprehensive training, you will have the necessary skills to:
- Distinguish between asymmetric multi-processing (AMP) and symmetric multi-processing (SMP) environments
- Identify situations when the ARM TrustZone technology and/or a hypervisor should be used
- Effectively use power management strategies and leverage the capabilities of the platform management unit (PMU)
- Define the boot sequences appropriate to the needs of the system
- Define the underlying implementation of the application processing unit (APU) and real-time processing unit (RPU) to make best use of their capabilities
Course Outline
Day 1
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC Application Processing Unit (Lecture)
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC Real-Time Processing Unit (Lecture,Demo,Lab)
- ARM TrustZone Technology (Lecture)
- QEMU (Lecture, Demo, Lab)
- Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC HW-SW Virtualization (Lecture, Demo, Lab)
- MultiProcessor Software Architecture (Lecture)
- Hypervisors (Lecture, Demo, Lab) (pairs with OpenAMP, but not SMP)
- OpenAMP Lecture,Lab)(pairs with the Xen Hypervisor, but not SMP)
- Linux (Lecture, Demo)
Day 2
- Yocto (Lecture, Demo,Lab)
- Open Source Library (Linux) (Lecture, Demo,Lab)
- FreeRTOS (Lecture, Demo,Lab)
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC Software Stack (Lecture,Demo)
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC PMU (Lecture,Demo,Lab)
- Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Power Management (Lecture,lab)
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC Booting (Lecture,Lab)
Topic Descriptions
- Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoc Application Processing Unit- Introduction to the members of the APU,specifically the Cortex A53 processor and how the cluster is configured and managed.
- Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Real-Time Processing Unit-Introduction of the various elements with the RPU and different modes of configuration.
- ARM TrustZone Technology-Illustrates the use of the ARM TrustZone technology.
- QEMU-Introduction to the Quick Emulator, which is the tool used to run software for the Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC device when hardware is not available.
- Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC HW-SW Virtualization - Covers the hardware and software elements of virtualization. The lab demonstates how hypervisors can be used.
- MultiProcessors Software Architecture - Introduces several potential architectures and illustrate the strengthen of each.
- Hypervisors - Description of generic hypervisors and discussion of some of the details of implementing a hypervisor using Xen.
- OpenAMO-Introduction to the concept of OpenAMP.
- Linux - Discussion and examples of showing how to configure Linux to manage multiple processors.
Day2
- Yocto - Compares and contrasts the kernel building methods between a "pure" Yocto build and the PetaLinux build (which uses Yocto "under-the-hood").
- Open Source Library - Introduction to open-source Linux and the effort and risk-reducing. PetaLinux tools.
- FreeRTOS - Overview of FreeRTOS with examples of how it can be used.
- Zynq UltraScale +MPSoC Software Stack-Introduction to what a software stack is and a number of stacks used with the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC.
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC PMU - Investigation into the tools and techniques for debugging a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device.
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC Power Management-Overview of the PMU and the power-saving features of the device.
- Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC Booting -How to implement the embedded system, including the boot process and boot image creation. Also how to detect a failed boot.
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