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Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter introduces the processor and its features. It contains the following sections: • About the processor on page 1-2 • ARMv7-A architecture on page 1-3 • Components of the processor on page 1-4 • External interfaces of the processor on page 1-7 • Debug on page 1-8 • Power management on page 1-9 • Configurable options on page 1-10 • Product documentation and architecture on page 1-11 • Product revisions on page 1-13. ARM DDI 0344K Copyright © 2006-2010 ARM Limited. All rights reserved. 1-1 ID060510 Non-Confidential
1.1 About the processor Introduction The Cortex-A8 processor is a high-performance, low-power, cached application processor that provides full virtual memory capabilities. The features of the processor include: • full implementation of the ARM architecture v7-A instruction set • configurable 64-bit or 128-bit high-speed Advanced Microprocessor Bus Architecture (AMBA) with Advanced Extensible Interface (AXI) for main memory interface supporting multiple outstanding transactions • a pipeline for executing ARM integer instructions • a NEON pipeline for executing Advanced SIMD and VFP instruction sets • dynamic branch prediction with branch target address cache, global history buffer, and 8-entry return stack • Memory Management Unit (MMU) and separate instruction and data Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs) of 32 entries each • Level 1 instruction and data caches of 16KB or 32KB configurable size • Level 2 cache of 0KB, 128KB through 1MB configurable size • Level 2 cache with parity and Error Correction Code (ECC) configuration option • Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) support for non-invasive debug • static and dynamic power management including Intelligent Energy Management (IEM) • ARMv7 debug with watchpoint and breakpoint registers and a 32-bit Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB) slave interface to a CoreSight debug system. ARM DDI 0344K Copyright © 2006-2010 ARM Limited. All rights reserved. 1-2 ID060510 Non-Confidential
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Page 5 and 6: Contents 2.14 The program status re
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Page 21 and 22: About this manual Product revision
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Page 25: Feedback Feedback on the product Fe
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Page 31 and 32: 1.3.6 NEON 1.3.7 ETM The NEON unit
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Chapter 3 System Control Coprocesso
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System Control Coprocessor Register
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3.1.3 MMU control and configuration
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3.2 System control coprocessor regi
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CRn Op1 CRm Op2 Register or operati
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3.2.4 c0, TCM Type Register 3.2.5 c
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3.2.7 c0, Processor Feature Registe
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System Control Coprocessor Table 3-
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Bits Field Function [11:8] L1 Harva
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Bits Field Function [11:8] Harvard
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System Control Coprocessor 31 28 27
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Table 3-36 shows the results of att
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• accessible in privileged modes
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CSSR Size 3.2.24 c0, Cache Size Sel
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MCR p15, 0, , c1, c0, 0 ; Write Con
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Bits Field [19] Clock stop request
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Bits Field Security State NS S Tabl
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3.2.28 c1, Secure Configuration Reg
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AW EA Function Table 3-55 shows the
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3.2.32 c2, Translation Table Base R
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System Control Coprocessor Figure 3
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Bits Field Function 3.2.35 c5, Data
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3.2.36 c5, Instruction Fault Status
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3.2.38 c6, Data Fault Address Regis
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System Control Coprocessor Note •
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System Control Coprocessor Figure 3
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3.2.41 c8, TLB operations The data
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Figure 3-38 shows the bit arrangeme
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EN b 3.2.44 c9, Count Enable Clear
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EN b 3.2.46 c9, Software Increment
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EN b 3.2.48 c9, Cycle Count Registe
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Value Description 0x44 Any cacheabl
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DBGEN || NIDEN 3.2.51 c9, User Enab
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EN 3.2.53 c9, Interrupt Enable Clea
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Figure 3-48 shows the bit arrangeme
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3.2.55 c9, L2 Cache Auxiliary Contr
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Bits Field Function [8:6] Tag RAM l
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TL bit value 3.2.57 c10, TLB preloa
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Bits Field Function System Control
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U bit PLE bit Table 3-129 shows the
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U bit PLE bit System Control Coproc
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3.2.68 c12, Secure or Nonsecure Vec
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3.2.70 c12, Interrupt Status Regist
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The FCSE PID Register is: • a rea
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TLB CAM read/write TLB ATTR read/wr
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MCR p15 0, , c15, c3, 4 ; I-L1 TLB
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System Control Coprocessor The L1 H
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3.2.78 c15, L1 data array operation
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Instruction L1 Data 0 register Inst
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Parity/ECC RAM read/write Data RAM
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3.2.82 c15, L2 parity/ECC array ope
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3.2.84 c15, L2 data array operation
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4.1 About unaligned and mixed-endia
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Unaligned Data and Mixed-endian Dat
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Chapter 5 Program Flow Prediction T
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5.2 Predicted instructions Program
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Program Flow Prediction Because ret
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5.4 Guidelines for optimal performa
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5.6 Operating system and predictor
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6.1 About the MMU Memory Management
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6.3 16MB supersection support Memor
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6.5 External aborts 6.5.1 External
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6.7 MMU software-accessible registe
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7.1 About the L1 memory system Leve
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7.2.6 Instruction cache maintenance
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L1 inner policy a L2 outer policy N
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7.5 Data cache features 7.5.1 Data
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7.7 Hardware support for virtual al
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8.2 Cache organization 8.2.1 L2 cac
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8.3 Enabling and disabling the L2 c
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9.1 About the external memory inter
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Integer data and CP14 writes Noncac
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9.4 AXI data read/write transaction
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10.2 Reset domains 10.2.1 Power-on
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Clock, Reset, and Power Control 3.
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Powering up the debug and ETM domai
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Clock, Reset, and Power Control 5.
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Chapter 11 Design for Test This cha
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Note Do not test the CAMBIST arrays
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• number of rows of the L2 data,
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Design for Test Not all row setting
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Instruction Mnemonic Description 12
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Table 12-23 shows how the bit value
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Bits Field Function [15:14] Secure
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12.4.18 Operating System Lock Statu
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Offset Register number Mnemonic Fun
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Bits Field Function [5] nDMAIRQ nDM
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12.5.10 Authentication Status Regis
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12.6 Debug events 12.6.1 Software d
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12.6.5 Watchpoint debug events If a
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Table 12-53 shows the values in the
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12.8 Debug state 12.8.1 Entering de
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12.8.9 Leaving debug state Imprecis
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12.9.3 Cache usage profiling Debug
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Note DBGPWRDWNREQ must be tied LOW
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If software running on the processo
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Debug Table 12-59 Values to write t
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Writing the CPSR in debug state Exa
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Chapter 13 NEON and VFP Programmers
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13.2 General-purpose registers 13.2
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13.3 Short vectors 13.3.1 About reg
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13.3.2 Operations using register ba
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NEON and VFP Programmers Model The
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Note All hardware ID information is
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NEON and VFP Programmers Model Tabl
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13.6 Compliance with the IEEE 754 s
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14.1 About the ETM 14.1.1 ETM featu
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Bits Field Function [11:8] Major ET
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14.9 Idle state control Embedded Tr
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CTICHIN[0] CTICHIN[1] CTICHIN[2] CT
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15.5 CTI register summary Address o
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15.6 CTI register descriptions This
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15.6.4 CTI Application Trigger Clea
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Table 15-10 shows how the bit value
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15.7 CTI Integration Test Registers
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Cross Trigger Interface Table 15-26
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15.8.3 Device Type Identifier, 0xFC
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Cross Trigger Interface Table 15-31
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Instruction Cycle Timing Example 16
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Table 16-9 shows the operation of l
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Instruction Cycle Timing Table 16-1
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17.2 AXI interface Table 17-2 shows
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17.3 ATB and CTI interfaces Table 1
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AC Characteristics Table 17-4 Timin
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17.6 L2 preload interface AC Charac
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17.8 Miscellaneous signals AC Chara
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A.1 AXI interface Signal Descriptio
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A.3 MBIST and DFT interface A.3.1 M
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A.4 Preload engine interface Table
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A.6 Miscellaneous signals Table A-7
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Signal I/O Reset Description CFGNMF
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Signal I/O Reset Description DBGNOP
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Appendix B Instruction Mnemonics Th
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Instruction Mnemonics Table B-1 Adv
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Appendix C Revisions This appendix
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Revisions Added text to clarify des
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Glossary This glossary describes so
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Glossary Automatic Test Pattern Gen
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Big-endian memory Memory in which:
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Conditional execution Glossary incl
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Glossary Embedded Trace Macrocell (
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Illegal instruction An instruction
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Glossary NaN Not a number. A symbol
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Glossary Significand The component
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Glossary Watchpoint A watchpoint is
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