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A system (10) implements user programmable addressing modes in response to control information contained within an input address. Encoded control information stored in a plurality of user programmed address permutation control registers (70-72) is used to determine what bit values are used to replace predetermined bits of the input address to selectively create a corresponding permutated address. Since no modification to a processor's pipeline is required, various permutation addressing modes may be user-defined and implemented using either a general-purpose processor or a specialized processor.
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A multiprocessing system includes a cache coherency technique that ensures that every access to a line of data is the most up-to-date copy of that line without storing cache coherency status bits in a global memory and any reference thereto. An operand cache includes a first directory which directly, on a one-to-one basis maps a range of physical address bits into a first section of the operand cache storage. An associative directory multiply maps physical addresses outside of the range into a second section of the operand cache storage section. All stack frames of user programs to be executed on the time-shared basis are stored in the first section, so cache misses due to stack operations are avoided. An instruction cache haivng various categories of instructions stores a group of status bits identifying the instruction category with each instruction. When a context switch occures, only instructions of the category least likely to be used in the near future are cleared decreasing delays due to clearing of the instruction cache as a result of context switches. A page-mapped I/O cache structure interfaces by a large number of I/O channels which regard a single I/O cache as an exclusive buffer. System operating delays due to maintaining cache coherency, operand cache misses, instruction cache misses, I/O cache misses, and maintaining a cache coherency are substantially reduced.
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Access requests to access data operands from memory space designated as a type of execute-only memory are allowed to precede in response to determining that the operand access request was generated using a particular type of addressing mode.
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A processor begins exception processing in response to an exception event. Exception processing by the processor is halted during exception processing to facilitate debugging. The exception event can be a reset exception event or an interrupt exception event. Normal exception processing by the data processor can be resumed after debugging, or exception processing by the data processor can be aborted to allow the normal execution of instructions by the data processor to resume. An exception event can be selectively treated as an interrupt or a reset.
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In response to determining an event has occurred, information is stored at a trace buffer of an integrated circuit. When the trace buffer is full, execution of instructions at a CPU is halted to allow the trace buffer information to be accessed at an external interface to the integrated circuit device. The CPU is continually halted as the trace buffer is filled to facilitate retrieving all information written to the trace buffer.
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A system and method for performance monitoring in processors is provided. The system and method evaluates the performance of the processor by counting selected events during one or more defined periods. The performance monitor provides improved performance characterization by providing highly-configurable start-stop control over the event counting.
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A storage location of a device that can be configured to act as a master in a particular security mode, such as a Direct Memory Access (DMA) having one or more channels, can be programmed to indicate a security indicator to be provided when configured to operate as a master device.
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In response to determining an event has occurred, information is stored at a trace buffer of an integrated circuit. When the trace buffer is full, execution of instructions at a CPU is halted to allow the trace buffer information to be accessed at an external interface to the integrated circuit device. The CPU is continually halted as the trace buffer is filled to facilitate retrieving all information written to the trace buffer.
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A processor begins exception processing in response to an exception event. Exception processing by the processor is halted during exception processing to facilitate debugging. The exception event can be a reset exception event or an interrupt exception event. Normal exception processing by the data processor can be resumed after debugging, or exception processing by the data processor can be aborted to allow the normal execution of instructions by the data processor to resume. An exception event can be selectively treated as an interrupt or a reset.
摘要:
A processor begins exception processing in response to an exception event. Exception processing by the processor is halted during exception processing to facilitate debugging. The exception event can be a reset exception event or an interrupt exception event. Normal exception processing by the data processor can be resumed after debugging, or exception processing by the data processor can be aborted to allow the normal execution of instructions by the data processor to resume. An exception event can be selectively treated as an interrupt or a reset.