--- layout: arm title: Arm resources --- ## Arm is the target So, since the first target is arm, some of us may need to learn a bit (yep, that's me). So this is a collection of helpful resources (links and specs) with sometimes very very brief summaries. So why learn assembler, after all, it's likely you spent your programmers life avoiding it: - Some things can not be expressed in Soml - To speed things up. - To add cpu specific capabilities ## Links A very good [summary pdf](/arm/arm_inst.pdf) was created by the arm university, which i converted to [html for online reading](/arm/target.html) [Dave's](http://www.davespace.co.uk/arm/introduction-to-arm/why-learn.html) site explains just about everything about the arm in nice and easy to understand terms. A nice series on thinkgeek, here is the integer [division section](http://thinkingeek.com/2013/08/11/arm-assembler-raspberry-pi-chapter-15/) that has a [code respository](https://github.com/rofirrim/raspberry-pi-assembler/blob/master/chapter15/magic.py) with code to generate code for constants. And off course there is the overwhelming arm infocenter, [here with it's bizarre division](http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0473c/CEGECDGD.html) The full 750 page specification for the pi , the [ARM1176JZF-S is here](/arm/big_spec.pdf) ## Virtual pi And since not everyone has access to an arm, here is a description how to set up an [emulated pi](/arm/qemu.html) And how to [access that](/arm/remote_pi.html) or any remote machine with ssl