Texas Instruments TMS320C3x User Manual

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2-cycle external bus

read access

Pipeline Conflicts

8-17

Pipeline Operation

Example 8–12. Multicycle Data Reads

LDF

@DMA,R0

Pipeline Operation

PC

Fetch

Decode

Read

Execute

n

LDF

n+1

I

LDF

n+2

J

I

LDF

n+3

K(dummy)

I

LDF

n+3

K

2

J

I

LDF

Note:

I, J, K = Instruction representations

The final type of hold-everything conflict deals with conditional calls (CALL

cond)

and traps (TRAP

cond), which are different from other branch instructions.

Whereas other branch instructions are conditional loads, the conditional calls
and traps are conditional stores, which take one more cycle to complete than
conditional branches (see Example 8–13). The added cycle pushes the return
address after the call condition is evaluated.

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