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Ask HN: Resources for learning ARM Assembly?

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I recently bought a Parallella board which uses an Arm A9. Here is what they say:

The Parallella includes a low power dual core ARM A9 processor and runs several of the popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu.

The unique Epiphany co-processor chips consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in bare metal C/C++ or in a parallel programming frameworks like OpenCL, MPI, and OpenMP.

Does anyone have any resources for learning ARM Assembly?

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Wow. Parallella, 18-core. $99. You could could build a nice cluster with these ;)

No info on this specific board. But you should check out Prof. Robert Plantz's book

Introduction to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Language Using the Raspberry Pi

http://bob.cs.sonoma.edu/IntroCompOrg-RPi/intro-co-rpi.html

Thanks for the link. Yes, That is the goal :-)

You probably want the reference manual for the co-processor.

Thanks. It is a little confusing because the board has ARM A9 and RISC.

There should be an Epiphany manual with details on what sort of different processors are on the board or SoC. Separate ARM architecture and related manuals should be available from arm.com

Thanks. I also found this too: http://www.shervinemami.info/armAssembly.html

I am not sure what your goals are but I would suggest first skimming through the documents on https://www.parallella.org/board/ . e.g. within the first few pages of "Parallella Reference Manual" there is a picture that shows all the parts which might have alleviated the "ARM A9" vs RISC confusion.

I am doing mostly C++ algo trading work right now. So I thought I would try and speed some things up and also write my own network stack.

  gcc -S

Thanks. That stops compilation and leaves asm files.

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