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Programming Model

MCF548x Reference Manual, Rev. 3

Freescale Semiconductor

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The ASID is optionally included in the specification of the hardware breakpoint registers. As an

example, the four PC breakpoint registers are each expanded by 8 bits, so that a specific ASID

value may be programmed as part of the breakpoint instruction address. Likewise, each operand

address/data breakpoint register is expanded to include an ASID value. Finally, new control

registers define if and how the ASID is to be included in the breakpoint comparison trigger logic.

The debug module implements the concept of ownership trace in which the ASID value may be

optionally displayed as part of the real-time trace functionality. When enabled, real-time trace

displays instruction addresses on every change-of-flow instruction that is not absolute or

PC-relative. For Revision D, this instruction address display optionally includes the contents of the

ASID, thus providing the complete instruction virtual address on these instructions.
Additionally when a Sync_PC serial BDM command is loaded from the external development

system, the processor optionally displays the complete virtual instruction address, including the

8-bit ASID value.

In addition to these ASID-related changes, the new MMU control registers are accessible by using serial

BDM commands. The same BDM access capabilities are also provided for the EMAC and FPU

programming models.
Finally, a new serial BDM command is implemented to assist debugging when a software error generates

an incorrect memory address that hangs the external bus. The new BDM command attempts to break this

condition by forcing a bus termination.

3.3

Programming Model

The MCF548x programming model consists of two instruction and register groups—user and supervisor,

shown in

Figure 3-3

. User mode programs are restricted to user, EMAC, and floating point instructions

and programming models. Supervisor-mode system software can reference all user-mode, EMAC, and

floating point instructions and registers and additional supervisor instructions and control registers. The

user or supervisor programming model is selected based on SR[S]. The following sections describe the

registers in the user, EMAC, floating point, and supervisor programming models.

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