Arm Virtual Hardware covers various solutions for software development on Arm-based processors using virtual targets. This includes Arm FVP simulation models, their cloud-native deployments and integrations with development tools.

Arm Virtual Hardware supports the software development cycle of embedded, IoT, and ML applications and provides essential components for effective integration into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and MLOps development flows.

Arm Virtual Hardware FVPs - Overview

Simulation Models

Arm FVP simulation models are standalone programs that gets executed in the target environment and enable execution of firmware programs on virtual targets. They are:

Precise simulation models of Arm Cortex-M based reference platforms, such as Corstone-3xx. Learn more at Simulation.
Available for cloud-native and desktop environments. See Infrastructure for details.

Infrastructure

Arm Virtual Hardware models integrate well in various tools and services for development, debug, testing as well as CI/CD and MLOps flows. Arm FVPs are already supported within many Arm tools, as well as by third-party vendors. See Infrastructure for more details.

Developer Resources

Various resources explain how to integrate Arm Virtual Hardware into workflows common for generic embedded software development, CI testing and MLOps.

Usage examples show typical use cases and range from audio processing, ML algorithm testing, up to IoT applications that interface to cloud service providers and over-the-air firmware Updates (OTA).

This documentation is structured into following chapters:

Chapter	Description
Overview	Introduces Arm Virtual Hardware along with the top-level structure.
Simulation	Explains the FVP simulation technology and the virtual interfaces.
Infrastructure	Describes key integrations of FVPs locally and in the cloud.
Examples	Guides through the examples that demonstrate how to use FVPs.

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