TF-M Technical Forum presentation
Nov 4, 2021
Chris Reed
Recently, I had a great opportunity to share a short, introductory training presentation for pyOCD at the TrustedFirmware-M Technical Forum. It was only a short 35-minute presentation plus Q&A, but was good experience nonetheless.
For some background, TrustedFirmware-M, or TF-M, is the reference implementation of firmware for the Secure world on Arm v8-M architecture microcontrollers which have TrustZone-M enabled. MCUs incorporating the Cortex-M23 and M33 cores that implement the v8-M architecture have been readily available for about 2.5 years now, and more are coming to market. And MCUs with the new Cortex-M55 should start appearing soon. (Not to say it’s easy to get them at the moment with all the current silicon supply chain issues!) So the use of TF-M and incorporation into MCU vendor SDKs, as well as open source project, is expanding. For instance, TF-M has direct support in Zephyr RTOS.
The presentation covers these topics:
- Introduction
- Features and roadmap
- Getting started
- Probes and targets
- Installing target support
- Configuration
- Programming memory
- Debugging: gdb and VSCode
I’m also working on a more detailed version of the slides, and will add these as an update to this page when they’re ready.
The TF-M page for the Technical Forum also has a link to the recording of the presentation and password:
TF-M Technical Forum
Many thanks to Anton Komlev for suggesting and arranging the presentation.