Freescale Semiconductor PowerQUICC MPC885 Reference Manual page 285

Part III
Configuration and Reset
Audience
This part is intended for system designers and programmers who need to understand the operation of the
MPC885 at start up. It assumes an understanding of the programming model described in the previous
chapters and a high level understanding of the MPC885.
Contents
This part describes start-up behavior of the MPC885. It contains the following chapters:
• Chapter 10, "System Interface Unit,"
initialization and operation, protection, as well as the external system bus.
• Chapter 11, "Reset,"
Suggested Reading
Supporting documentation such as technical specifications, reference materials, and detailed applications
notes can be accessed through the world-wide web at http://www.freescale.com.
Conventions
This chapter uses the following notational conventions:
Bold entries in figures and tables showing registers and parameter RAM should
Bold
be initialized by the user.
mnemonics Instruction mnemonics are shown in lowercase bold.
italics Italics indicate variable command parameters, for example, bcctrx.
Book titles in text are set in italics.
0x0 Prefix to denote hexadecimal number
0b0 Prefix to denote binary number
rA, rB Instruction syntax used to identify a source GPR
rD Instruction syntax used to identify a destination GPR
REG[FIELD] Abbreviations or acronyms for registers or buffer descriptors are shown in
uppercase text. Specific bits, fields, or numerical ranges appear in brackets. For
example, MSR[LE] refers to the little-endian mode enable bit in the machine state
register.
Freescale Semiconductor
describes the SIU, which controls system start-up,
describes the behavior of the MPC885 at reset and start-up.
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