Online Courses
These courses been carefully developed to help students, hobbyists and practicing or aspiring engineers learn about state-of-the-art technologies from the Arm partner ecosystem. The content focuses on fundamental topics and the essential principles of hardware and software design, critical for today's engineering workplace. Arm architecture provides the reference platform – but the learning outcomes are relevant to anyone interested in understanding our increasingly connected and intelligent world, irrespective of technology choice.
Our online courses are either available on edX or on the Vitalsource Bookshelf platform. Please see below for details.
Please note that some courses require hardware and software tools, which must be purchased separately.
Academic Developer Platforms
Arm technology scales from the smallest bare-metal systems to multicore cloud environments. Whether you're a university educator, researcher, or developer, we're here to support your work.
We have curated resources designed to help accelerate your projects around each compute subsystem, including SoC design, bring-up, and application software development.
See our new academic developer platforms to choose your area of interest and see other related resources.
Available on edX
Introduction to Microprocessors?
An introduction to computer architecture, microprocessors, and CPUs. Learn about the basic components of a PC, what they do, how they talk to each other and how object code gets transformed into machine code.
Computer Architecture Essentials on Arm
Gain an understanding of the architecture of modern microprocessors - from pipelining and branching to cache memories and super-scalar processors. Our lab exercises will bring to life the theory discussed in the course through a range of simulation tools.
Business Models for Technology Innovators
Engineers and technology innovators need to understand how their contribution fits into the bigger picture. At the heart of this is the business model. Learn through a series of case studies how to understand and deploy business models to capture value and maximize opportunities from your passion for technology.