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von J0 V. (in_control001)


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Hi guys,

What is MPU in an ARM? I cant find good information bout that subject.

Is it a new memory management system?


Kind regards,
Jo

von Marcus H. (mharnisch)


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J0 Vm wrote:
> What is MPU in an ARM? I cant find good information bout that subject.
>
> Is it a new memory management system?

Not new. Memory Protection Unit. Allows you to describe a couple of 
memory regions in terms of access permissions, cache attributes/policy, 
etc.
No address translation, though.

Examples: ARM946, Cortex-M3 (optional), ARM1156, Cortex-R4

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Marcus
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von Clifford S. (clifford)


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J0 Vm wrote:
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> I cant find good information bout that subject.
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Define "good information".  For ARM cores with an MPU, it is described 
in the associated "Technical Reference Manual" for the core, for example 
for Cortex-M3: 
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0337e/BIHJJABA.html 
and for ARM ARM1156T2F-S: 
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0290g/Behjcgbj.html. 
I suggest that those are pretty comprehensive.

Not all ARM cores have an MPU, and not all ARM MPUs are identical across 
cores.

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