Chapter 20 Debug (S12XDBGV2)
MC9S12XDP512 Data Sheet, Rev. 2.11
Freescale Semiconductor 813
Figure 20-22. DBG Overview
20.4.2 Comparator Modes
The DBG contains 4 comparators, A, B, C, and D. Each comparator can be configured to monitor either
CPU or XGATE busses using the SRC bit in the corresponding comparator control register. Each
comparator compares the selected address bus with the address stored in DBGXAH, DBGXAM and
DBGXAL. Furthermore comparators A and C also compare the data buses to the data stored in DBGXDH,
DBGXDL and allow masking of individual data bus bits.
All comparators are disabled in BDM and during BDM accesses.
The comparator match control logic (see Figure 20-22) configures comparators to monitor the busses for
an exact address or an address range, whereby either an access inside or outside the specified range
generates a match condition. The comparator configuration is controlled by the control register contents
and the range control by the DBGC2 contents.
On a match a trigger can initiate a transition to another state sequencer state (see Section 20.4.3, “Trigger
Modes”). The comparator control register also allows the type of access to be included in the comparison
through the use of the RWE,RW,SZE and SZ bits. The RWE bit controls whether read or write comparison
is enabled for the associated comparator and the RW bit selects either a read or write access for a valid
match. Similarly the SZE and SZ bits allows the size of access (word or byte) to be considered in the
compare. Only comparators B and D feature SZE and SZ.
The TAG bit in each comparator control register is used to determine the triggering condition. By setting
TAG, the comparator will qualify a match with the output of opcode tracking logic and a trigger occurs
before the tagged instruction executes (tagged-type trigger). Whilst tagging the RW, RWE, SZE and SZ
bits are ignored and the comparator register must be loaded with the exact opcode address.
CPU BUS
BUS INTERFACE
TRIGGER
EXTERNAL TAGHI / TAGLO
MATCH0
XGATE BUS
COMPARATOR B
COMPARATOR C
COMPARATOR D
COMPARATOR A
MATCH1
MATCH2
MATCH3
READ TRACE DATA (DBG READ DATA BUS)
SECURE
BREAKPOINT REQUESTS
XGATE S/W BREAKPOINT REQUEST
TAGS
TAGHITS
STATE
CPU & XGATE
COMPARATOR
MATCH CONTROL
TAG &
TRIGGER
CONTROL
LOGIC
STATE
SEQUENCER
TRACE
BUFFER
TRACE
CONTROL
TRIGGER