Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm — Getting Started
Foundations of embedded systems and Arm based microcontrollers through simulator led exercises in I/O, interrupts, timers and peripheral control.
The Silicon House · Arm Education
The world's most pervasive compute platform, taught openly to the next generation.
NeuroCampur.ai fully supports Arm as a provider of the highest quality semiconductor educational resources. From microprocessors and system on chip design to VLSI, embedded systems and edge AI, Arm Education gives students, educators and engineers a free, rigorous route into the silicon industry.
Our position
NeuroCampur.ai fully supports Arm as a provider of the highest quality semiconductor educational resources.
We recommend Arm Education without reservation to every Malaysian student, academic and educator in our network. It is free at the point of use, industry grade in its depth, and directly aligned to the skills Malaysia needs as it builds its own chip design capability. Where a student in our community asks how to enter semiconductors, this is where we send them.
Rigour that universities can adopt
Education kits arrive with lecture slides, lab manuals and solutions, so a department can teach a full semiconductor module without building it from nothing.
Open access, no paywall
Courses run on edX and Coursera and kits are published openly on GitHub, which means a student in Kuala Lumpur or Kuching learns from the same material as one in Cambridge.
Taught on real industry technology
Learners work with the architecture inside billions of devices, from Cortex-M microcontrollers to Armv8-A systems and edge AI deployment.
Arm and Malaysia
Arm sits at the heart of Malaysia's Silicon Vision.
In March 2025 the Malaysian government selected Arm as a key strategic AI technology partner, the country's first major step towards a world leading AI chip ecosystem. Arm CEO Rene Haas and Chief Commercial Officer Will Abbey joined the Prime Minister, the Minister of Economy and the Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry at the MoU exchange ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.
Under the partnership Malaysia will invest USD 250 million over ten years to access Arm Compute Subsystem technologies and the Arm Flexible Access programme, building its own integrated circuit design environment and offering frontend IC design opportunities to the wider industry.
Most importantly for our community, Arm committed to training 10,000 Malaysia based semiconductor talents on Arm technology. That is a talent pledge, not just a licence, and it is why we treat Arm Education as national infrastructure for Malaysian students.
Image and announcement detail: Arm Newsroom, "Arm Compute Platform at the Heart of Malaysia's Silicon Vision", 5 March 2025.
USD 250m
Malaysian government commitment over ten years to acquire Arm chip design IP
10,000
Malaysia based semiconductor talents Arm has committed to train on Arm technology
March 2025
MoU exchange ceremony with the Prime Minister and senior Malaysian ministers
Arm CSS
Compute Subsystems and Flexible Access underpinning Malaysia's own IC design environment
Foundations
Semiconductor and computer architecture courses.
Freely accessible courses on edX and Coursera covering microprocessors, computer architecture, embedded systems, system on chip and VLSI design.
Embedded Systems Essentials — Get Practical with Hardware
Hands on embedded skills with an ST Nucleo board, covering serial interfaces, peripheral programming and real time operating systems.
Introduction to Microprocessors
How processors execute programs, from the fetch decode execute cycle and ALU through to memory, assembly and high level code.
Computer Architecture Essentials on Arm
Modern computer architecture including pipelining, caches, out of order execution and processor performance through practical labs.
Introduction to System on Chip Design
Produced by King's College London with support from Arm Education. How modern systems on chip are structured, designed and fabricated.
Introduction to Very Large Scale Integration Design
The digital chip journey from CMOS and logic design to verification, layout, packaging and electronic design automation workflows.
For educators
Arm Education Kits: a full teaching module, ready to adopt.
Each kit provides lecture slides, lab manuals and solutions for core engineering and computer science subjects. Any Malaysian faculty can take one and teach it next semester.
01VLSI Fundamentals — Generic EditionPractical CMOS VLSI design from transistor behaviour and timing through logic, verification, physical design and tape out workflows.02VLSI Fundamentals — Cadence EditionPractical CMOS VLSI design using Cadence tools, spanning synthesis, place and route, verification and GDSII tape out.03Introduction to SoC DesignIntroductory SoC design with Cortex-M0 and AHB-Lite, covering peripherals, CMSIS, interrupts, device drivers and FPGA implementation.04Advanced SoC DesignAdvanced Armv7-A SoC design with Cortex-A9, AXI4, hardware acceleration, image processing and hardware software co design.05Introduction to Computer ArchitectureModern computer architecture from Armv8-A and pipelining to caches, multicore systems, parallelism and processor simulation.06Efficient Embedded Systems DesignSecure, efficient Armv8-M embedded system design with Cortex-M33, TrustZone and performance aware development exercises.07Rapid Embedded Systems DesignRapid Arm based embedded development using Mbed APIs, peripherals, RTOS concepts and practical microcontroller projects.08Internet of ThingsIoT systems from embedded programming and wireless networking to cloud connected sensors, mobile apps and introductory machine learning.09Digital Signal ProcessingCore DSP theory and implementation including filtering, transforms, adaptive algorithms and real time processing on Arm boards.10Real Time Operating SystemsRTOS design through tasks, scheduling, memory management and parallel programming with practical performance trade offs.11Embedded LinuxEmbedded Linux architecture, kernel modules, boot, configuration, debugging and profiling through practical system building.12Introduction to Robotic SystemsEmbedded robotics with Cortex-M7 and ROS, covering motors, sensors, control, navigation and autonomous system programming.13Graphics and Mobile GamingMobile graphics and game development with OpenGL ES, Mali GPU concepts, Unity, AR/VR and performance profiling.14Arm Development Studio GoldA professional Arm development toolchain for creating, debugging and optimising software for Arm based embedded systems.
AI on Arm
Artificial intelligence, from the edge to the cloud.
Where semiconductors meet AI. These courses take learners from first principles to deploying and optimising models on Arm powered devices.
Introduction to AI
An accessible foundation in AI, machine learning and data science, including responsible use, PyTorch and an image classification project.
Machine Learning at the Edge on Arm
Train, optimise and deploy machine learning models on Arm based microcontrollers using TensorFlow and practical edge inference exercises.
Optimizing Generative AI on Arm Processors
Optimise generative AI inference across Arm edge and cloud systems using quantisation, SIMD, KleidiAI and CPU focused techniques.
AI at the Edge on Arm — Deploying LLMs for Mobile Devices
Deploy and optimise large language models on Arm powered mobile devices using compression techniques and practical edge AI development.
Teaching AI on the Edge
For educators: project based approaches to model design, evaluation, privacy and responsible deployment on resource constrained devices.
Build Your First Internet of Things Application on Arm
IoT fundamentals through practical Arm based projects spanning embedded programming, connectivity, cloud services and sensors.
Start learning
If you want to build chips, start here.
Every resource on this page is provided free by Arm Education. NeuroCampur.ai hosts this house to point our students and academics towards it, and to send attention back to Arm's own platforms.
Sources
- Arm Newsroom: Arm Compute Platform at the Heart of Malaysia's Silicon Vision
- Reuters: Malaysia to pay Arm Holdings USD 250 million for chip design blueprints
- Arm Education: online resources catalogue
- Arm Flexible Access
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