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ColdFire Core
If the access error occurs on an operand read, the processor immediately aborts the current instruction's
execution and initiates exception processing. In this situation, any address register updates attributable to
the auto-addressing modes, (for example, (An)+,-(An)), have already been performed, so the programming
model contains the updated An value. In addition, if an access error occurs during a MOVEM instruction
loading from memory, any registers already updated before the fault occurs contain the operands from
memory.
The V3 ColdFire processor uses an imprecise reporting mechanism for access errors on operand writes.
Because the actual write cycle may be decoupled from the processor's issuing of the operation, the
signaling of an access error appears to be decoupled from the instruction that generated the write.
Accordingly, the PC contained in the exception stack frame merely represents the location in the program
when the access error was signaled. All programming model updates associated with the write instruction
are completed. The NOP instruction can collect access errors for writes. This instruction delays its
execution until all previous operations, including all pending write operations, are complete. If any
previous write terminates with an access error, it is guaranteed to be reported on the NOP instruction.
3.3.4.2 Address Error Exception
Any attempted execution transferring control to an odd instruction address (if bit 0 of the target address is
set) results in an address error exception.
Any attempted use of a word-sized index register (Xn.w) or a scale factor of eight on an indexed effective
addressing mode generates an address error, as does an attempted execution of a full-format indexed
addressing mode, which is defined by bit 8 of extension word 1 being set.
If an address error occurs on a JSR instruction, the Version 3 ColdFire processor calculates the target
address then the return address is pushed onto the stack. If an address error occurs on an RTS instruction,
the Version 3 ColdFire processor overwrites the faulting return PC with the address error stack frame.
3.3.4.3 Illegal Instruction Exception
The ColdFire variable-length instruction set architecture supports three instruction sizes: 16, 32, or 48 bits.
The first instruction word is known as the operation word (or opword), while the optional words are known
as extension word 1 and extension word 2. The opword is further subdivided into three sections: the upper
four bits segment the entire ISA into 16 instruction lines, the next 6 bits define the operation mode
(opmode), and the low-order 6 bits define the effective address. See
definition is shown in Table
15 14 13
Line
Figure 3-12. ColdFire Instruction Operation Word (Opword) Format
3-16
3-8.
12 11 10 9
OpMode
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8 7 6 5
Mode
3-12. The opword line
4 3 2 1
Effective Address
Register
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