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Preface

About this book

This book provides reference information for the ARM Developer Suite (ADS). It

describes:

• ARMulator

, the ARM processor simulator

• Semihosting SWIs, the means for your ARM programs to access facilities on your

host computer.

Intended audience

This book is written for all developers who are using the ARM debuggers,

armsd

and

AXD. It assumes that you are an experienced software developer, and that you are

familiar with the ARM development tools as described in Getting Started.

Using this book

This book is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Read this chapter for an introduction to the material in this book, and a

summary description of the range of ARM debug targets.

Chapter 2 ARMulator Basics

Read this chapter for a description of ARMulator, the ARM instruction

set simulator.

Chapter 3 Writing ARMulator models

Read this chapter for help in writing your own extensions and

modifications to ARMulator.

Chapter 4 ARMulator Reference

This chapter provides further details to help you use ARMulator.

Chapter 5 Semihosting

Read this chapter for information about how to access facilities on the

host computer from your ARM programs.