Cortex-R4 and Cortex-R4F
 Technical Reference Manual
Cortex-R4 and Cortex-R4F
Copyright 2009 ARM Limited. All rights reserved
 Chapter Introduction
Cortex-R4 and Cortex-R4F Technical Reference Manual
 Chapter Processor Initialization, Resets, and Clocking
 Chapter AC Characteristics
 Appendix B ECC Schemes
 List of Tables
 Adfsr and Aifsr bit functions
 Dirty register format, with ECC
 11-12
 Example interlocks 14-11
 Table A-18 FPU signals Table C-1
 List of Figures
 Cache operations C7 format for Set and Way
 Vector Catch Register format 11-20
 Feedback on
Preface
 Identifies the major revision of the product
Using this book
About this book
Product revision status
 Typographical
Conventions
 Signals
Timing diagrams
 Other publications
Further reading
This section lists publications by ARM and by third parties
ARM publications
 Feedback on this book
Feedback
ARM welcomes feedback on this product and its documentation
Feedback on this product
 Introduction
 About the processor
 About the architecture
 System control coprocessor on Interrupt handling on
Components of the processor
This section describes the main components of the processor
Debug on
 Prefetch unit
Data Processing Unit
Floating Point Unit
Load/store unit
 Memory Protection Unit
Instruction and data caches
TCM interfaces
 AXI slave interface
Error correction and detection
5 L2 AXI interfaces
AXI master interface
 Real-time debug facilities
Debug
System performance monitoring
ETM interface
 Low interrupt latency
System control coprocessor
Interrupt handling
VIC port
 Changes
Return from exception using data from the stack
 APB Debug interface
Processor has the following interfaces for external access
External interfaces of the processor
APB Debug interface ETM interface Test interface
 Shutdown mode
Power management
Run mode
Standby mode
 Configurable options
Configurable options
Atcm
 MPU
Btcm
VFP
FPU includeda
 B1TCMPCEN
Configurable options at reset Feature Options Register
Atcmpcen
B0TCMPCEN
 Atcmrmw
Atcmecen
B0TCMECEN
B1TCMECEN
 Names of the pipeline stages and their functions are
Execution pipeline stages
Instruction decode
 Write-back of data from the execution pipelines
First stage of data memory access
Iss
Execute stages
 Redundant core comparison
 Test features
 Documentation
Product documentation, design flow, and architecture
Design flow
 Architectural information
Build configuration
Configuration inputs
Software configuration
 Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture protocol
 Processor identification
Product revision information
 Revision field, Debug ID Register
Variant field, Main ID Register
Revision field, Main ID Register
Variant field, Debug ID Register
 Exceptions on
Programmer’s Model
Registers on
Program status registers on
 About the programmer’s model
 Thumb state
Switching state
Instruction set states
ARM state
 Operating modes
 Data types
 Little-endian format
Memory formats
Byte-invariantbig-endian format Little-endian format
Byte-invariant big-endian format
 Register set
Registers
 Register mode identifiers Mode Mode identifier
 General registers and program counter
 N, Z, C, and V bits
Program status registers
 IT bits
Q bit
 DNM bits
J bit
GE bits
 Non-maskable fast interrupts on
E bit
A bit
I and F bits
 Modification of PSR bits by MSR instructions
PSR mode bit values
M40 Mode Visible state registers Thumb
M bits
 ARM DDI 0363E
 Exception entry and exit summary
Reset on Interrupts on Aborts on
Exceptions
Exception entry and exit summary
 Leaving an exception
Taking an exception
 Interrupts
Reset
Interrupt request
 Program status registers on Non-maskable fast interrupts
Fast interrupt request
Non-maskable fast interrupts
 Interrupt controller
Interrupt entry flowchart
 Interrupt entry sequence
 Precise aborts
Aborts
Prefetch aborts
Data aborts
 Aborts in Strongly Ordered and Device memory
Imprecise aborts
 Supervisor call instruction
Abort handler
 Breakpoint instruction
Undefined instruction
 Exception vectors
 Acceleration of execution environments
 Architecture Reference Manual
Unaligned and mixed-endian data access support
 Big-endian instruction support
 Initialization on
Processor Initialization, Resets, and Clocking
Resets on
Reset modes on
 2 CRS
Initialization
Caches on TCM on
1 MPU
 5 TCM
Caches
Preloading TCMs
 Write to TCM directly from debugger
DMA into TCM
Preloading TCMs with parity or ECC
 Using TCMs from reset
 NSYSPORESET
Resets
NRESET
PRESETDBGn
 Power-on reset
Reset modes
 Normal operation
Processor reset
Halt operation
 Clock gating
Clocking
AXI interface clocking Clock gating
AXI interface clocking
 System Control Coprocessor
 System control coprocessor functional groups
About the system control coprocessor
 Function Register/operation Reference to description
System control coprocessor register functions
Fcse PID
 System performance Performance monitoring
System control and configuration
Configuration Region
TCM control TCM Status
 Cache control and configuration
MPU control and configuration
 System performance monitor
TCM control and configuration
 System performance monitor registers
System validation
 ARM DDI 0363E
 Register allocation
System control coprocessor registers
RAZ
 Number
Enable Undefined MPU Region Access Read/write
Undefined MPU Region Size Read/write
Control Undefined MPU Memory Region Read/write
 ARM DDI 0363E
 Event Select Read/write Unpredictable Performance Monitor
Undefined C3-c11 C12 Performance Monitor Read/write
Count Undefined
 Writes Context ID Read/write
C14 User Enable Read/write
Undefined C1-c15 C12 C0-c15 C13
RAZ,ignore
 7shows the arrangement of bits in the register
2 c0, Main ID Register
 Main ID Register bit functions
3 c0, Cache Type Register
Bits Field Function
 TCM Type Register bit functions Bits Field Function
To access the Cache Type Register, read CP15 with
4 c0, TCM Type Register
Cache Type Register bit functions Bits Field Function
 TCM Type Register bit functions
To access the TCM Type Register, read CP15 with
To access the MPU Type Register, read CP15 with
5 c0, MPU Type Register
 C0, Processor Feature Register 0, PFR0
Processor Feature Registers
6 c0, Multiprocessor ID Register
 Processor Feature Register 1 bit functions
To access the Processor Feature Register 0 read CP15 with
C0, Processor Feature Register 1, PFR1
Processor Feature Register 0 bit functions
 3124 Reserved
To access the Processor Feature Register 1 read CP15 with
8 c0, Debug Feature Register
Debug Feature Register 0 bit functions
 C0, Memory Model Feature Register 0, MMFR0
To access the Debug Feature Register 0 read CP15 with
9 c0, Auxiliary Feature Register
Memory Model Feature Registers
 10 Memory Model Feature Register 0 bit functions
C0, Memory Model Feature Register 1, MMFR1
 11 Memory Model Feature Register 1 bit functions
16 Memory Model Feature Register 1 format
 WFI
C0, Memory Model Feature Register 2, MMFR2
DMB
 13 Memory Model Feature Register 3 bit functions
C0, Memory Model Feature Register 3, MMFR3
3112 Reserved
 C0, Instruction Set Attributes Register 0, ISAR0
Instruction Set Attributes Registers
14 Instruction Set Attributes Register 0 bit functions
 20 Instruction Set Attributes Register 1 format
C0, Instruction Set Attributes Register 1, ISAR1
 ITE
C0, Instruction Set Attributes Register 2, ISAR2
Indicates support for if then instructions
 PSR
16 Instruction Set Attributes Register 2 bit functions
Indicates support for PSR instructions
 17 Instruction Set Attributes Register 3 bit functions
C0, Instruction Set Attributes Register 3, ISAR3
Thumb instruction sets
 23 Instruction Set Attributes Register 4 format
C0, Instruction Set Attributes Register 4, ISAR4
 12 c0, Current Cache Size Identification Register
C0, Instruction Set Attributes Registers
18 Instruction Set Attributes Register 4 bit functions
 8KB
4KB
 3130 Reserved
13 c0, Current Cache Level ID Register
 15 c1, System Control Register
14 c0, Cache Size Selection Register
 Nmfi
23 System Control Register bit functions
AFE
TRE
 = strict alignment fault checking enabled
Enables L1 data cache
= data caching disabled. This is the reset value
= data caching enabled
 C1, Auxiliary Control Register
Auxiliary Control Registers
24 Auxiliary Control Register bit functions
 Deolp
Axiscen
Axiscuen
Dilsm
 Dnch
Rsdis
Dbwr
Dlfo
 C15, Secondary Auxiliary Control Register
 25 Secondary Auxiliary Control Register bit functions
 UFC
Doofmacs
IXC
OFC
 Atcmecc
17 c1, Coprocessor Access Register
Primary input RMWENRAM1 defines the reset value
Primary input RMWENRAM0 defines the reset value
 C5, Data Fault Status Register
Fault Status and Address Registers
All other encodings for these FSR bits are Reserved
 28 Data Fault Status Register bit functions
C5, Instruction Fault Status Register
To use the Dfsr read or write CP15 with
 29 Instruction Fault Status Register bit functions
To access the Ifsr read or write CP15 with
C5, Auxiliary Fault Status Registers
There are two auxiliary fault status registers
 = Btcm
C6, Data Fault Address Register
30 Adfsr and Aifsr bit functions
= Atcm
 19 c6, MPU memory region programming registers
C6, Instruction Fault Address Register
 C6, MPU Region Base Address Registers
C6, MPU Region Size and Enable Registers
 158 Sub-region disable
C6, MPU Region Access Control Registers
32 Region Size Register bit functions
 TEX
33 MPU Region Access Control Register bit functions
 35 MPU Memory Region Number Register bit functions
34 Access data permission bit encoding
C6, MPU Memory Region Number Register
UNP
 Point of Coherency PoC
Cache operations
Point of Unification PoU
 Set and Way format
Invalidate and clean operations
 37 Widths of the set field for L1 cache sizes Size Set
37shows the cache sizes and the resultant bit range for Set
Address format
36 Functional bits of c7 for Set and Way
 38 Functional bits of c7 for address format Bits Field
Data Synchronization Barrier operation
Data Memory Barrier operation
21 c9, Btcm Region Register
 22 c9, Atcm Region Register
To access the Btcm Region Register, read or write CP15 with
39 Btcm Region Register bit functions
 40 Atcm Region Register bit functions
To access the Atcm Region Register, read or write CP15 with
23 c9, TCM Selection Register
24 c11, Slave Port Control Register
 RAZ/UNP
25 c13, Fcse PID Register
26 c13, Context ID Register
312 Reserved
 27 c13, Thread and Process ID Registers
 Validation Registers
C15, nVAL IRQ Enable Set Register
Ccnt overflow IRQ request
 Ccnt overflow FIQ request
C15, nVAL FIQ Enable Set Register
 C15, nVAL Debug Request Enable Set Register
C15, nVAL Reset Enable Set Register
Ccnt overflow reset request
 Ccnt overflow debug request
C15, nVAL IRQ Enable Clear Register
 48 nVAL IRQ Enable Clear Register format
C15, nVAL FIQ Enable Clear Register
 303 Reserved UNP or Sbzp
C15, nVAL Reset Enable Clear Register
 51 nVAL Debug Request Enable Clear Register format
C15, nVAL Debug Request Enable Clear Register
 B0000 4kB B0001 8kB B0011 16kB B0111 32kB B1111 64kB
C15, nVAL Cache Size Override Register
50 nVAL Cache Size Override Register
318 Reserved
 53 Correctable Fault Location Register cache
Correctable Fault Location Register
 52 Correctable Fault Location Register cache
 C15, Build Options 2 Register
To access the Build Options 1 Register, write CP15 with
Build Options Registers
C15, Build Options 1 Register
 Atcmes
55 Build Options 2 Register
Noicache
Nodcache
 Nompu
Btcmes
Noie
Nofpu
 Axibusparity
To access the Build Options 2 Register, write CP15 with
Noharderrorcach
Dcachees
 Prefetch Unit
 About the prefetch unit
 Disabling program flow prediction
Branch prediction
 Branch predictor
Configuring the branch predictor
Incorrect predictions and correction
 Return stack
 Events and Performance Monitor
 Event
Bit position Update Value
About the events
Event bus interface bit functions
 ETMEXTOUT1
ETMEXTOUT0
 Dual issue case B1, B2, F2 load/store, F2D
Non-cacheable access on AXI master bus
Instruction cache access
But with different attributes Dual issue case a branch
 TCM correctable ECC error reported by prefetch unit Yes
TCM correctable ECC error reported by load/store unit Yes
 About the PMU
 2shows how the bit values correspond with the Pmnc Register
Performance monitoring registers
Performance monitoring registers are described
1 c9, Performance Monitor Control Register
 Pmnc Register bit functions
2 c9, Count Enable Set Register
 3 c9, Count Enable Clear Register
To access the Cntens Register, read or write CP15 with
Cntens Register bit functions Bits Field Function
 Cntenc Register bit functions Bits Field Function
To access the Cntenc Register, read or write CP15 with
Cycle counter enable clear
4 c9, Overflow Flag Status Register
 5shows how the bit values correspond with the Flag Register
To access the Flag Register, read or write CP15 with
5 c9, Software Increment Register
 313 Reserved RAZ on reads, Sbzp on writes Increment Counter
To access the Swincr Register, read or write CP15 with
6 c9, Performance Counter Selection Register
Swincr Register bit functions Bits Field Function
 8 c9, Event Selection Register
7 c9, Cycle Count Register
SEL
 EVTSELx Register bit functions
To access the EVTSELx Register, read or write CP15 with
 9 c9, Performance Monitor Count Registers
10 c9, User Enable Register
Useren Register bit functions
 Ccnt overflow interrupt enable
11 c9, Interrupt Enable Set Register
10 Intens Register bit functions Bits Field Function
 Ccnt overflow interrupt enable bit
12 c9, Interrupt Enable Clear Register
11 Intenc Register bit functions Bits Field Function
 To access the Intenc Register, read or write CP15 with
 Use of the event bus and counters
Event bus interface
 MPU software-accessible registers on
MPU faults on
Memory Protection Unit
 About the MPU
Default memory map
True
 Subregions
Memory regions
Region base address
Region size
 Region
Region access permissions
Region attributes
Overlapping regions
 Example of using subregions
Example of using regions that overlap
 TCM regions
Background regions
 Memory types
Using memory types
 ARM DDI 0363E
 TEX20, C, and B encodings Description Memory Type Shareable?
Region attributes
 1BB
Cacheable memory policies
 MPU interaction with memory system
On page 7-2shows the default memory map
Following code is an example of disabling the MPU
 Permission fault
MPU faults
Background fault Permission fault Alignment fault
Background fault
 On page 4-5shows the CP15 registers that control the MPU
MPU software-accessible registers
 Level One Memory System
 About the L1 memory system
 L1 memory system block diagram
 Parity Bit ECC on
About the error detection and correction schemes
Parity
 Read-Modify-Write
Error checking and correction
Hard errors
Bit ECC
 Correct inline
Error correction
Correct-and-retry
 MPU faults
Fault handling
Faults
Classes of fault that can occur are
 Cache and TCM parity and ECC errors
External faults
TCM external faults
 Abort exceptions
Fault status information
Debug events
Precise and imprecise aborts
 Imprecise abort exceptions
Precise abort exceptions
Usage models
 Types of aborts Conditions Source Precise Fatal
Correctable errors
AXI
 ARM DDI 0363E
 TCM attributes and permissions
About the TCMs
 TCM internal error detection and correction
Atcm and Btcm configuration
Handling TCM parity errors on Handling TCM ECC errors on
 Handling TCM ECC errors
Handling TCM parity errors
TCM arbitration
 TCM initialization
External TCM errors
TCM port protocol
 AXI slave interfaces for TCMs
 Store buffer
About the caches
 Store buffer draining
Cache maintenance operations
Store buffer merging
Store buffer behavior
 Error build options
Cache error detection and correction
 Handling cache parity errors
Address decoder faults
Cache parity error behavior Value Behavior
 Cache ECC error behavior Value Behavior
Handling cache ECC errors
 Errors on evictions
Errors on instruction cache read
Errors on data cache read
Errors on data cache write
 Invalidate all instruction cache
 Clean data cache by set/way
 Tag RAM
Cache RAM organization
Tag RAM
Dirty RAM on Data RAM on
 Organization of a dirty RAM line
Dirty RAM
Data RAM
Cache sizes and tag RAM organization Tag RAM organization
 Nonsequential read operation performed with one RAM access
 Data RAM sizes without parity or ECC implemented
 13 Data cache RAM bits, with parity Description
 15 Data cache data RAM sizes with ECC Cache size Data RAMs
Cache interaction with memory system
Disabling or enabling all of the caches
Following code is an example of enabling caches
 Disabling or enabling instruction cache
Disabling or enabling error checking
Disabling or enabling data cache
 MCR p15 R0, c1 Write System Control Register
 Internal exclusive monitor
 Memory types and L1 memory system behavior
 Data-cache error events
Error detection events
TCM error events
Instruction-cache error events
 ARM DDI 0363E
 Level Two Interface
 About the L2 interface
 1shows the AXI master interface attributes
AXI master interface
Attribute Value Comments
 Write response
Identifiers for AXI bus accesses
Outstanding write/read access on different IDs
Outstanding write accesses with the same ID
 Aruserm and Awuserm encodings
Eviction buffer
Memory attributes
Arcachem and Awcachem encodings Encoding a Meaning
 Memory system implications for AXI accesses
 Strongly Ordered and Device transactions on
AXI master interface transfers
Linefills on
 Address20
Restrictions on AXI transfers
Strongly Ordered and Device transactions
Non-cacheable Ldrb
 Ldrh from Strongly Ordered or Device memory Address30
LDR or LDM that transfers one register
 LDM5, Strongly Ordered or Device memory Address40
LDM that transfers five registers
 Strh to Strongly Ordered or Device memory Address20
Strb to Strongly Ordered or Device memory Address40
 STM of seven registers
STR or STM of one register
First Wstrbm
 Cache line write-back eviction
Linefills
Non-cacheable reads
 15 LDR or LDM1 from Non-cacheable Normal memory Address20
14 Ldrh from Non-cacheable Normal memory Address20
 Non-cacheable or write-through writes
 AXI transaction splitting
 20 AXI transaction splitting, data in two cache lines
Normal write merging
 Example 9-1 Write merging
 ARM DDI 0363E
 AXI slave interface for cache RAMs
AXI slave interface
 Cache parity and ECC support
TCM parity and ECC support
AXI slave control
 25 AXI slave interface attributes
AXI slave characteristics
 Enabling or disabling AXI slave accesses
 TCM RAM access on Cache RAM access on
Accessing RAMs using the AXI slave interface
26 RAM region decode AxUSERS bit One-hot RAM select
 RAM selected
TCM RAM access
ARADDRSMSB, see Table
27 TCM chip-select decode Btcm ports
 Memory map when accessing the cache RAMs
Cache RAM access
This section contains the following
 0001 Bank 0010 0100 1000
Data RAM access
0010 Bank 0100 1000
31 Cache data RAM bank/address decode Inputs ARADDRS1815
 35 Data format, data cache, with ECC Data bit Description
34 Data format, instruction cache, with ECC
 Tag RAM access
 ARM DDI 0363E
 43 Dirty register format, with ECC Data bit Description
Dirty RAM access
 ARADDRS1815 = 4b1111
Other examples of accessing cache RAMs
 About power control on Power management on
Power Control
 About power control
 Shutdown mode
Run mode
Standby mode
Dormant mode
 Communication to the Power Management Controller
 Debug state on Cache debug on
Debug
 Protocol converter
Debug systems
Debug host Protocol converter Debug target
Debug host
 Programming the debug unit
About the debug unit
Halting debug-mode debugging
Monitor debug-mode debugging
 All other state information associated with the debug unit
 Coprocessor registers summary
11.3.2 CP14 access permissions
Debug register interface
Coprocessor registers
 Debug memory-mapped registers
Offset Register Access Mnemonic Description Hex Number
Memory-mapped registers
Instruction Mnemonic Description
 Memory addresses for breakpoints and watchpoints
 Privilege of memory access permission
Power domains
Effects of resets on debug registers
APB port access permissions
 Other registers
External debug interface access permissions Registers
Lock
Other Debug registers
 11.4.2 CP14 c0, Debug ID Register
Accessing debug registers
Debug register descriptions
6shows the CP14 debug register map
 WRP
Debug ID Register functions
BRP
 11.4.4 CP14 c0, Debug Self Address Offset Register
To use the Debug ID Register, read CP14 c0 with
11.4.3 CP14 c0, Debug ROM Address Register
To use the Debug ROM Address Register, read CP14 c0 with
 Debug Self Address Offset Register functions
Debug Self Address Offset Register format
 10 Debug Status and Control Register functions
11.4.5 CP14 c1, Debug Status and Control Register
 Flag is set to 1 on entry to debug state
 = disabled, this is the reset value
Execute ARM instruction enable bit
ARM
 MOE
DTR access mode
 Data Transfer Register
 Reserved RAZ
Watchpoint Fault Address Register
12 Watchpoint Fault Address Register functions
Vector Catch Register
 SVC
 14 Debug State Cache Control Register functions
Bits Field Reset Description Value
Debug State Cache Control Register
Instruction Transfer Register
 15 Debug Run Control Register functions
Debug Run Control Register
315 Reserved
 Breakpoint Control Registers
Breakpoint Value Registers
 17 Breakpoint Control Registers functions
 BVR2220 Meaning
+0 is accessed
Corresponding instruction address breakpoint
18 Meaning of BVR bits
 Watchpoint Control Registers
Watchpoint Value Registers
19 Watchpoint Value Registers functions Bits Description
 20 Watchpoint Control Registers functions
11 Watchpoint Control Registers format
 Operating System Lock Status Register
Accessed
 21 OS Lock Status Register functions
Authentication Status Register
 23 Prcr functions
Device Power-down and Reset Control Register
Device Power-down and Reset Status Register
= Dbgnopwrdwn is LOW. This is the reset value
 24 Prsr functions
15 Prsr format
 Processor ID Registers
Management registers
 Claim Tag Set Register
Claim Registers
27 Claim Tag Set Register functions Bits Field Function
 Lock Status Register
Lock Access Register
318 Reserved RAZ or Sbzp Claim tag clear Reset value is
Claim Tag Clear Register
 Debug Identification Registers
Device Type Register
30 Device Type Register functions
 Bits Value Description
32 Fields in the Peripheral Identification Registers
Field Size Description
33 Peripheral ID Register 0 functions
 37 Peripheral ID Register 4 functions
34 Peripheral ID Register 1 functions
35 Peripheral ID Register 2 functions
36 Peripheral ID Register 3 functions
 1022
1020
Component Identification Register
1021
 Software debug event
Debug events
 Watchpoint debug events
Halting debug event
Behavior of the processor on debug events
Debug event priority
 Debug exception
 Four CP15 registers that record abort information are
40shows the values in the link register after exceptions
Following sections describe
Effect of debug exceptions on CP15 registers and Wfar
 Avoiding unrecoverable states
 41 Read PC value after debug state entry
Debug state
Privilege on
Entering debug state
 41 Read PC value after debug state entry Debug event
Behavior of the PC and Cpsr in debug state
 Privilege
Accessing registers and memory
Executing instructions in debug state
Writing to the Cpsr in debug state
 Exceptions in debug state
Coprocessor instructions
Effect of debug state on non-invasive debug
Effects of debug events on processor registers
 Leaving debug state
Precise Data abort
Imprecise Data Abort
Imprecise Data Aborts on entry and exit from debug state
 Sets the DSCR1 core restarted flag to
 Cache coherency in debug state
Cache debug
This section describes cache debug. It consists
Cache pollution in debug state
 External debug interface
APB signals
Miscellaneous debug signals
This section describes the miscellaneous debug signals
 Non-invasive debug permitted
Authentication signals
Changing the authentication signals
42 Authentication signal restrictions Dbgen a
 Issue an Instruction Synchronization Barrier ISB instruction
 Example 11-1 Executing an ARM instruction through the ITR
Using the debug functionality
 Debug communications channel
Rules for accessing the DCC
 Example 11-4 Target to host data transfer host end
Software access to the DCC
Debugger access to the DCC
Example 11-5shows the code for host-to-target data transfer
 Example 11-6 Polling the DCC host end
Programming breakpoints and watchpoints
This section describes the following operations
Programming simple breakpoints and the byte address select
 Example 11-7 Setting a simple breakpoint
Setting a simple aligned watchpoint
 Example 11-8 Setting a simple aligned watchpoint
Setting a simple unaligned watchpoint
 Not required
Example 11-9 Setting a simple unaligned watchpoint
45shows some examples
Single-stepping
 Example 11-10 Single-stepping off an instruction
Debug state entry
Example 11-11 Entering debug state
 Example 11-12 Leaving debug state
Debug state exit
 Example 11-13 Reading an ARM register
Accessing registers and memory in debug state
This section describes the following
Reading and writing registers through the DCC
 Example 11-16shows the code for reading the Cpsr
Reading the PC in debug state
Example 11-15shows the code to read the PC
Reading the Cpsr in debug state
 Example 11-17 Writing the Cpsr
Example 11-19 Checking for an abort after memory access
Reading memory
Example 11-18shows the code for reading a byte of memory
 Example 11-21 Reading a word of memory
Example 11-20 Reading a block of bytes of memory
 Fast register read/write
Example 11-22 Changing the DTR access mode
Example 11-23 Reading registers in stall mode
Example 11-24 Writing registers in stall mode
 Example 11-25 Reading a block of words of memory
Fast memory read/write
 Example 11-27 Reading a coprocessor register
Accessing coprocessor registers
 11-70
 Debugging systems with energy management capabilities
Emulating power down
 11-72
 FPU Programmer’s Model
 FPU functionality
About the FPU programmer’s model
About the VFPv3-D16 architecture
 FPU views of the register bank
General-purpose registers
 VFPv3 architecture describes the following system registers
System registers
1shows the VFP system registers in the Cortex-R4F FPU
 This is a change in VFPv3 compared to VFPv2
All hardware ID information is privileged access only
Fpsid is privileged access only
Mvfr registers are privileged access only
 Rmode
Floating-Point Status and Control Register, Fpscr
Fpscr Register bit functions
DNM
 DNM IXE RAZ UFE OFE DZE IOE IDC
Floating-Point Exception Register, Fpexc
LEN
IDE RAZ
 MVFR0 Register bit functions
Media and VFP Feature Registers, MVFR0 and MVFR1
Floating-Point Exception Register bit functions
DEX
 Full denormal arithmetic supported for VFP
MVFR1 Register bit functions
 Default NaN mode
Full-compliance mode Flush-to-zero mode Default NaN mode
Full-compliance mode
Flush-to-zero mode
 NaN handling
Compliance with the Ieee 754 standard
Complete implementation of the Ieee 754 standard
Ieee 754 standard implementation choices
 CDP
Comparisons
Underflow
QNaN and SNaN handling
 Exceptions
 Integration Test Registers
 About Integration Test Registers
 Programming and reading Integration Test Registers
Software access using APB
 Itmiscin
Register Itctrl
Itetmif
Itmiscout
 1312
Processor integration testing
1110
 Performing integration testing
Using the Integration Test Registers
 Itetmif Register bit assignments Bits Name Function
Itetmif Register ETM interface
 Itmiscin Register Miscellaneous Inputs
Itmiscout Register Miscellaneous Outputs
Itmiscout Register bit assignments Bits Name Function
 Etmextout
Integration Mode Control Register Itctrl
Bits Name Function
Dbgrestart
 Intmode
Bits Access Reset value Name Function
7shows the fields of the Itctrl Register
RAZ/SBZP
 Multiplies on Divide on Branches on
Cycle Timings and Interlock Behavior
 Dual issue on
 Instruction execution overview
About cycle timings and interlock behavior
 Definition of terms
Following sequence where R1 is a Late Reg takes two cycles
Flag-setting instructions
Conditional instructions
 Assembler language syntax
 Takes three cycles because of the result latency of R1
Register interlock examples
Instruction Behavior Sequence
Takes two cycles because there are no register dependencies
 Cycle counts if destination is not PC
Data processing instructions
Cycle counts if destination is the PC
 Shifter
Example interlocks
Register controlled shifts
 QADD, QDADD, QSUB, and Qdsub instructions
 SEL
Media data-processing
 USAD8 instruction
Sum of Absolute Differences SAD
Instruction sequence Behavior
Result of the USAD8 instruction
 Umlals
Multiplies
 14-13
 Divide
 10 Branch instruction cycle timing behavior
Branches
Example instruction Cycles Memory Comments
 All MSR instructions to the Spsr
Mode changing
Processor state updating instructions
All MRS instructions
 13shows the cycle timing behavior for loads to the PC
Single load and store instructions
 13 Cycle timing behavior for loads to the PC
Base register update
Example instruction Cycles Memory Result Comments Latency
 14-19
 Load and Store Double instructions
Register offset, then 3-issue cycles
 Write-back
Load and Store Multiple instructions
 Correct condition prediction and incorrect
Load Multiples, where the PC is in the register list
Correct condition prediction and correct
Return stack prediction
 14-23
 RFE and SRS instructions
 Clrex
Synchronization instructions
 Some instructions such as cache operations take more cycles
Coprocessor instructions
 Prefetch Abort Undefined Instruction
SVC formerly SWI
 Miscellaneous instructions
 Blocking and serializing
Floating-point register transfer instructions
Serializing
 2,2
Floating-point load/store instructions
Bit aligned address
Not aligned
 4,5
2,3
 Floating-point single-precision data processing instructions
 Floating-point double-precision data processing instructions
 Dual issue rules Permitted combinations on
Dual issue
Dual issue rules
 Permitted combinations
Dual issue First instruction Second instruction Case
28 Permitted instruction combinations
 Case F2Db
Case F2stb
Any single-precision CDPi, excluding
Multiply-accumulate instructionso
 Processor timing on Processor timing parameters on
AC Characteristics
 Processor timing
 Clock uncertainty 50%
Processor timing parameters
Input port timing parameters
Clock uncertainty 10%
 4shows the input timing parameters for the AXI master port
3shows the timing parameters for the interrupt input ports
Clock uncertainty 60%
 Rreadys
5shows the input timing parameters for the AXI slave port
 7shows the input timing parameters for the ETM input ports
6shows the input timing parameters for the debug input ports
 Clock uncertainty 65%
8shows the timing parameters for the test input ports
Clock uncertainty 40%
 11shows the timing parameters for the interrupt output ports
Output ports timing parameters
 Write response channel Clock uncertainty 60%
13shows the timing parameters for the AXI slave output ports
 BRESPS10
 Clock uncertainty 45%
16shows the timing parameters for the test output ports
 Fpidc
18shows the timing parameters for the FPU output signals
 15-13
 FPU signals on page A-23
Processor Signal Descriptions
 Any
About the processor signal descriptions
From any clock
 Table A-1 Global signals
Global signals
Signal Direction Clocking Description
 Information
Configuration signals
Table A-2shows the processor configuration signals
Table A-2 Configuration signals
 Tie High for odd parity
Tie LOW for even parity
 RMWENRAM10b
 Interrupt signals, including VIC interface signals
 Table A-4 AXI master port signals for the L2 interface
L2 interface signals
AXI master port
 Protection signals provide addition information about a bus
Identification tag for the write data group of signals
Identification tag for the write response signal
Identification tag for the read address group of signals
 AXI slave port
AXI master port error detection signals
Table A-5 AXI master port error detection signals
Table A-6 AXI slave port signals for the L2 interface
 One to 16. a four bit binary value minus one determines
Protection information, privileged/normal access. AWPROT0
AXI specification
Protection information, privileged/normal access. ARPROT0
 Table A-7 AXI slave port error detection signals
AXI slave port error detection signals
ATCM, one hot. AWUSERS30 signal is not part
Standard AXI specification
 Table A-8shows the Atcm port signals
TCM interface signals
Table A-9shows the B0TCM port signals
 Table A-10 B1TCM port signals
Table A-10shows the B1TCM port signals
= DMA
 Write parity or ECC code for B1TCM
B1TCM RAM access is sequential
Address for B1TCM data RAM
Write data for B1TCM data RAM
 Table A-11shows the dual redundant core interface signals
Dual core interface signals
Table A-11 Dual core interface signals
 Table A-13shows the debug miscellaneous signals
Debug interface signals
Table A-12 Debug interface signals
 Input Tie-off Debug self-address offset valid
Table A-13 Debug miscellaneous signals
Input Tie-off Debug ROM physical address valid
Input Tie-off Debug self-address offset
 Table A-14shows the ETM interface signals
ETM interface signals
Table A-14 ETM interface signals
 Table A-15shows the test signals
Test signals
Table A-15 Test signals
 Table A-16shows the Mbist signals
Mbist signals
 Table A-17shows the validation signals
Validation signals
 Table A-18 FPU signals
FPU signals
 ECC scheme selection guidelines on page B-2
ECC Schemes
 ECC scheme selection guidelines
 Clarified little-endian format
NCPUHALT removed from timing diagram Added sections
Revisions
Clarified byte-invariant big-endian format
 Change Location
Table C-1 Differences between issue B and issue C
 No technical changes
Table C-2 Differences between issue C and issue D
 Base register write-back
Glossary
Abort, and an internal or External Abort
See also Data Abort, External Abort and Prefetch Abort
 See Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
See also Advanced High-performance Bus
See Advanced High-performance Bus
That are divisible by four and two respectively
 Completed transfer
Active read transaction
Active transfer
Active write transaction
 Write ID width
Read ID width
Read issuing capability
Write ID capability
 See also Beat
See also Burst
 Bus
Accesses are expected to be word-aligned
Accessed in parallel during a cache look-up
See also Word-invariant
 See also Dirty
 See also Clean
 See Embedded Trace Macrocell
 Precision and the fraction is all zeros
An instruction that is architecturally Undefined
By individual implementations
Option chosen does not affect software compatibility
 Result of attempting to access invalid instruction memory
Serviced while normal program execution is suspended
See also Halt mode
See Cold reset
 See Boundary scan chain
Or equal to 1 and is not restricted to being a power of two
See Should Be One
See Should Be Zero
 User trap handler is executed
See Debug test access port
Increment of +2
Destination precision
 A processor
Expected behavior for an unaligned access
Bit for the exception is set
Processor-specific. a victim is also known as a cast out
 Cache terminology diagram