Chapter 19 Debug (S12XDBGV2)
MC9S12XDP512 Data Sheet, Rev. 2.17
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If the TAG bit is clear (forced type trigger) a comparator match is generated when the selected address
appears on the system address bus. If the selected address is an opcode address, the match is generated
when the opcode is fetched from the memory. This precedes the instruction execution by an indenite
number of cycles due to instruction pipe lining. For a comparator match of an opcode at an odd address
when TAG = 0, the corresponding even address must be contained in the comparator register. Thus for an
opcode at odd address (n), the comparator register must contain address (n – 1).
Once a successful comparator match has occurred, the condition that caused the original match is not
veried again on subsequent matches. Thus if a particular data value is veried at a given address, this
address may not still contain that data value when a subsequent match occurs.
Comparators C and D can also be used to select an address range to trace from. This is determined by the
TRANGE bits in the DBGTCR register. The TRANGE encoding is shown in
Table 19-10. If the TRANGE
bits select a range denition using comparator D, then comparator D is congured for trace range
denition and cannot be used for address bus comparisons. Similarly if the TRANGE bits select a range
denition using comparator C, then comparator C is congured for trace range denition and cannot be
used for address bus comparisons.
Match[0,1,2,3] map directly to comparators [A,B,C,D] respectively, except in range modes (see
19.4.2.1
Exact Address Comparator Match (Comparators A and C)
With range comparisons disabled, the match condition is an exact equivalence of address/data bus with the
value stored in the comparator address/data registers. Further qualication of the type of access (R/W,
word/byte) is possible.
Comparators A and C do not feature SZE or SZ control bits, thus the access size is not compared. The exact
address is compared, thus with the comparator address register loaded with address (n) a misaligned word
access of address (n-1) also accesses (n) but does not cause a match
Table 19-37 lists access considerations
without data bus compare.
Table 19-36 lists access considerations with data bus comparison. To compare
byte accesses DBGXDH must be loaded with the data byte. The low byte must be masked out using the
DBGXDLM mask register. On word accesses data byte of the lower address is mapped to DBGXDH.
Comparators A and C feature an NDB control bit to determine if a match occurs when the data bus differs
to comparator register contents or when the data bus is equivalent to the comparator register contents.
Table 19-36. Comparator A and C Data Bus Considerations
Access
Address
DBGxDH
DBGxDL
DBGxDHM
DBGxDLM
Example Valid Match
Word
ADDR[n]
Data[n]
Data[n+1]
0x_FF
MOVW #$WORD ADDR[n]
Byte
ADDR[n]
Data[n]
x
0x_FF
0x_00
MOVB #$BYTE ADDR[n]
Word
ADDR[n]
Data[n]
x
0x_FF
0x_00
MOVW #$WORD ADDR[n]
Word
ADDR[n]
x
Data[n+1]
0x_00
0x_FF
MOVW #$WORD ADDR[n]