Abstract:
An integrated circuit is provided with diagnostic circuitry, such as serial scan chains or debug bus access circuits, with which communication is established using an interface circuit coupled with a bi-directional serial link to an external diagnostic device. The bi-directional serial link carries both data and control signals.
Abstract:
A data processing system nested interrupt controller 24 responsive to priority level values 28, 30 associated with respective interrupt handling programs to control the execution of those interrupt handling programs. The priority level values have a first portion 28 which controls whether or not a pending interrupt handling program will pre-empt an already active interrupt handling program and a second portion 30 which controls which of a plurality of pending interrupt handling programs will be executed next when they share the same value for the first portion of their priority level value.
Abstract:
A data processing system 2 has a base data address region 24 and a bit-band data address region 28. Memory accesses to the bit-band data address region 28 are converted into memory accesses to the base data address region 24. In the process of this conversion specific bits within the base data address region 24 are picked out for access whether that be via a read-modify-write operation or a masked read operation as appropriate. In this way, bit access is provided to data values within the base data address region 24 by addressing specific address locations within the bit-band data address region 28.