
MCF5272 ColdFire Integrated Microprocessor User’s Manual, Rev. 3
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Freescale Semiconductor
Conventions
This document uses the following notational conventions:
MNEMONICS
In text, instruction mnemonics are shown in uppercase.
mnemonics
In code and tables, instruction mnemonics are shown in lowercase.
italics
Italics indicate variable command parameters.
Book titles in text are set in italics.
0x0
Prefix to denote hexadecimal number
0b0
Prefix to denote binary number
REG[FIELD]
Abbreviations for registers are shown in uppercase. Specific bits, fields, or ranges
appear in brackets. For example, RAMBAR[BA] identifies the base address field
in the RAM base address register.
nibble
A 4-bit data unit
byte
An 8-bit data unit
word
A 16-bit data unit1
longword
A 32-bit data unit
x
In some contexts, such as signal encodings, x indicates a don’t care.
n
Used to express an undefined numerical value
NOT logical operator
&
AND logical operator
|
OR logical operator
1. The only exceptions to this appear in the discussion of serial communication modules that support variable-length data
transmission units. To simplify the discussion these units are referred to as words regardless of length.