NEC VR4133 manual 0x0f001000 0x0f001009

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Operating Precautions for VR4133 TM

No. 5

Write access to external I/O area

 

(Direction of usage)

 

Details

 

A write cycle to external I/O or Flash area after

 

• a CPU read/write access to a BCU-managed registersNote

 

• or a CPU I/O read after a bus hold

 

• or a DMA I/O read after a bus hold

 

• or a Flash memory read

may drive the wrong write data. To avoid this situation, one of the following workarounds must be implemented:

(1)execute a dummy register access to a non-BCU-managed registerNote

(2)execute a dummy external I/O write or Flash write before the actually intended external write

Note: BCU-managed registers are all registers except

 

SCU registers

0x0f001000 – 0x0f001009

 

SDRAMU registers

0x0f000400 – 0x0f000409

 

PCIU registers

0x0f000c00 – 0x0f000d43

 

ETHER registers

0x0f001400 – 0x0f00193f

 

CEU registers

0x0f000e00 – 0x0f000e7f

 

 

No. 6

Branch delay slot of JAL(X) instruction in MIPS16 mode

 

(Specification change notice)

 

Details

 

 

 

A load of PC relative instruction must not be placed in the delay slot of a JAL(X) instruction in

 

MIPS16 mode. Therefore one of the following countermeasures must be taken:

 

(1)

Do not locate a load of PC relative instruction in the delay slot of a JAL(X) instruction in

 

 

MIPS16 mode.

 

 

(2)

Do not use JAL(X) instructions in MIPS16 mode; use JAL(X) in native mode instead.

 

As implementing these countermeasures requires changes in the compilers, MIPS16 will be

 

deleted from the VR4133 specification.

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Customer Notification

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