Overview
MCF52110 ColdFire® Integrated Microcontroller Reference Manual, Rev. 1
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Freescale Semiconductor
Preliminary
— Programmable drive strengths
— Unused peripheral pins may be used as extra GPIO
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JTAG support for system level board testing
1.2.1
V2 Core Overview
The version 2 ColdFire processor core is comprised of two separate pipelines decoupled by an instruction
buffer. The two-stage instruction fetch pipeline (IFP) is responsible for instruction-address generation and
instruction fetch. The instruction buffer is a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer that holds prefetched
instructions awaiting execution in the operand execution pipeline (OEP). The OEP includes two pipeline
stages. The first stage decodes instructions and selects operands (DSOC); the second stage (AGEX)
performs instruction execution and calculates operand effective addresses, if needed.
The V2 core implements the ColdFire instruction set architecture revision A+ with added support for a
separate user stack pointer register and four new instructions to assist in bit processing. Additionally, the
MCF52110 core includes the multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit for improved signal processing
capabilities. The MAC implements a three-stage arithmetic pipeline, optimized for 16
×
16 bit operations,
with support for one 32-bit accumulator. Supported operands include 16- and 32-bit signed and unsigned
integers, signed fractional operands, and a complete set of instructions to process these data types. The
MAC provides support for execution of DSP operations within the context of a single processor at a
minimal hardware cost.
1.2.2
Integrated Debug Module
The ColdFire processor core debug interface is provided to support system debugging with low-cost debug
and emulator development tools. Through a standard debug interface, access to debug information and
real-time tracing capability is provided on 100-lead packages. This allows the processor and system to be
debugged at full speed without the need for costly in-circuit emulators.
The on-chip breakpoint resources include a total of nine programmable 32-bit registers: an address and an
address mask register, a data and a data mask register, four PC registers, and one PC mask register. These
registers can be accessed through the dedicated debug serial communication channel or from the
processor’s supervisor mode programming model. The breakpoint registers can be configured to generate
triggers by combining the address, data, and PC conditions in a variety of single- or dual-level definitions.
The trigger event can be programmed to generate a processor halt or initiate a debug interrupt exception.
The MCF52110 implements revision B+ of the ColdFire Debug Architecture.
The MCF52110’s interrupt servicing options during emulator mode allow real-time critical interrupt
service routines to be serviced while processing a debug interrupt event. This ensures the system continues
to operate even during debugging.
To support program trace, the V2 debug module provides processor status (PST[3:0]) and debug data
(DDATA[3:0]) ports. These buses and the PSTCLK output provide execution status, captured operand
data, and branch target addresses defining processor activity at the CPU’s clock rate. The MCF52110
includes a new debug signal, ALLPST. This signal is the logical AND of the processor status (PST[3:0])
signals and is useful for detecting when the processor is in a halted state (PST[3:0] = 1111).