Error Enabling And Detection Registers - Motorola MPC8240 User Manual

Error Handling Registers
Figure 4-20. ECC Single-Bit Error Trigger Register—0xB9
Table 4-29 describes the bits of the ECC single-bit error trigger.
Table 4-29. Bit Settings for ECC Single-Bit Error Trigger Register—0xB9
Bits Name
7–0 ECC single-bit error
trigger

4.8.2 Error Enabling and Detection Registers

The error enabling registers 1 and 2 (ErrEnR1 and ErrEnR2), shown in Figure and
Figure 4-24, control whether the MPC8240 recognizes and reports specific error
conditions. Table 4-30 describes the bits of ErrEnR1, and Table 4-33 describes the bits of
ErrEnR2.
The error detection registers 1 and 2 (ErrDR1 and ErrDR2), shown in Figure 4-22 and
Figure 4-25, contain error flags that report when the MPC8240 detects a specific error
condition.
The error detection registers are bit-reset type registers. That is, reading from these registers
occurs normally; however, write operations are different in that bits (error flags) can be
cleared but not set. A bit is cleared whenever the register is written, and the data in the
corresponding bit location is a 1. For example, to clear bit 6 and not affect other bits in the
register, write 0b0100_0000 to the register. When the MPC8240 detects an error, the
appropriate error flag is set. Subsequent errors set the appropriate error flags in the error
detection registers, but the bus error status and error address are not recorded until the
previous error flags are cleared.
The processor bus error status register (BESR) is also described in this section, as its
address offset is 0xC3, which falls in between the ErrDR1 and ErrEnR2 in the memory
map. This register saves the value of the TT[0:4] and TSIZ[0:2] when a processor-initiated
bus error is detected.
Finally the PCI bus error status register and processor/PCI error address register are
described at the end of this subsection.
4-34
ECC Single-Bit Error Trigger
7
Reset
Value
All 0s These bits provide the threshold value for the number of ECC single-bit errors
that are detected before reporting an error condition. If the value of the single
bit error counter register equals the value of this register, then an error is
reported (provided ErrEnR1[2] = 1).
If this register = 0x00, then no single bit error is ever generated.
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