Motorola ONCE SC140 Application Note page 8

Initializing the stopwatch timer consists of setting up the Address Event Detection Channel (EDCA). The
role of EDCA in the stopwatch timer implementation is to trigger the commencement of the cycle
countdown. The Enhanced OnCE supports six EDCAs. The implementation presented in this application
note uses EDCA1, though this choice is arbitrary.
Set up of the EDCA requires initializing the following four registers:
• The 32-bit EDCA reference value register A (EDCA1_REFA).
• The 32-bit EDCA reference value register B (EDCA1_REFB).
• The 32-bit EDCA mask register (EDCA1_MASK).
• The 16-bit EDCA control register (EDCA1_CTRL).
3.1.1 Event Detector Control
The register, EDCA1_CTRL, controls the behavior of the EDCA. The fields of the EDCA1_CTRL register
are shown in Figure 2.
Table 1 describes the settings of these fields in the stopwatch timer implementation.
Setting
Field
(binary value)
EDCAEN 1111
CS
CBCS
CACS
ATS
BS
The EDCA becomes enabled as soon as these values are written into the control register. The EDCA stays
enabled for the duration of the program execution to enable repeated use of the stopwatch timer.
3.1.2 Address Comparison Setup
The purpose of the address comparison in the EDCA is to detect writes to the stopwatch timer flag
variable. Because writes may take place on either of the two data memory buses, both registers,
EDCA1_REFA and EDCA1_REFB, are set up to contain the address of the stopwatch timer flag variable.
The register EDCA1_MASK allows masking of address bits when comparing the sampled address with
those in the EDCA1_REFA and EDCA1_REFB registers. In the implementation of the stopwatch timer all
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Figure 2. EDCA Control Register (EDCA1_CTRL)
Table 1. EDCA_CTRL Settings
This channel is enabled
11 Trigger event if address matches either comparator A or comparator B
00 An "address match" is detected when sampled bus value equals value in
EDCA_REFB
00 An "address match" is detected when sampled bus value equals value in
EDCA_REFA
01 Detect write access only
10 The sampled buses are XABA and XABB
Using the SC140 Enhanced OnCE Stopwatch Timer
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