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Contents
ARMv7-M Architecture Application Level
Reference Manual
Preface
About this manual ............................................................................... xvi
Using this manual .............................................................................. xvii
Conventions ........................................................................................ xix
Further reading .................................................................................... xx
Feedback ............................................................................................ xxi
Part A Application Level Architecture
Chapter A1 Introduction
A1.1 The ARM Architecture – M profile .................................................... A1-2
Chapter A2 Application Level Programmers’ Model
A2.1 About the Application level programmers’ model ............................. A2-2
A2.2 ARM core data types and arithmetic ................................................ A2-3
A2.3 Registers and execution state ........................................................ A2-11
A2.4 Exceptions, faults and interrupts .................................................... A2-15
A2.5 Coprocessor support ...................................................................... A2-16
