Samsung S3C2440A User Manual

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ARM INSTRUCTION SET

S3C2440A RISC MICROPROCESSOR

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USE OF R15

Do not use R15 as an operand (Rd, Rn or Rs) in a SWP instruction.


DATA ABORTS

If the address used for the swap is unacceptable to a memory management system, the memory manager can
flag the problem by driving ABORT HIGH. This can happen on either the read or the write cycle (or both), and in
either case, the Data Abort trap will be taken. It is up to the system software to resolve the cause of the problem,
then the instruction can be restarted and the original program continued.


INSTRUCTION CYCLE TIMES

Swap instructions take 1S + 2N +1I incremental cycles to execute, where S,N and I are defined as sequential
(S-cycle), non-sequential, and internal (I-cycle), respectively.


ASSEMBLER SYNTAX

<SWP>{cond}{B} Rd,Rm,[Rn]

{cond}

Two-character condition mnemonic. See Table 3-2.

{B}

If B is present then byte transfer, otherwise word transfer

Rd,Rm,Rn

Expressions evaluating to valid register numbers

Examples

SWP

R0,R1,[R2]

; Load R0 with the word addressed by R2, and

; store R1 at R2.

SWPB

R2,R3,[R4]

; Load R2 with the byte addressed by R4, and

; store bits 0 to 7 of R3 at R4.

SWPEQ

R0,R0,[R1]

; Conditionally swap the contents of the

; word addressed by R1 with R0.

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