Freescale Semiconductor MPC5553 - Timer Facilities

MPC5553/MPC5554 Microcontroller Reference Manual, Rev. 5
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Single-beat transfers are supported for cache-inhibited read and write cycles, and write-buffer writes. Burst
transfers of four doublewords are supported for cache linefill and copyback operations.
3.3.5 Timer Facilities
The core provides a set of registers to provide fixed interval timing and watchdog functions for the system.
All of these must be initialized during start-up. The registers associated with fixed interval timer and
watchdog functions are the following:
• Timer control register (TCR) – provides control of the timer and watchdog facilities.
• Timer status register (TSR) – provides status of the timer facilities.
• Time base registers (TBU and TBL) – Two 32-bit registers (upper and lower) that are concatenated
to provide a long-period, 64-bit counter.
• Decrementer register (DEC) – a decrementing counter that is updated at the same rate as the time
base. The DEC provides a means of signaling an exception after a specified amount of time. The
DEC is typically used as a general-purpose software timer. Note that the decrementer always runs
when the system is clocked, and may be written to by software at any time.
• Decrementer auto reload register (DECAR) – provides a value that is automatically reloaded (if
enabled) into the decrementer register when the decrementer reaches 0.
For more information on the fixed-interval timer, watchdog timer, and timer and counter registers, refer to
the e200z6 PowerPC
TM
Core Reference Manual and EREF: A Reference for Freescale Book E and the
e500 core.
3.3.6 Signal Processing Extension APU (SPE APU)
3.3.6.1 Overview
The Power Architecture embedded category 32-bit instructions operate on the lower (least significant) 32
bits of the 64-bit GPRs. New SPE instructions are defined that view the 64-bit register as being composed
of a vector of two 32-bit elements, and some of the instructions also read or write 16-bit elements. These
new instructions can also be used to perform scalar operations by ignoring the results of the upper 32-bit
half of the register file. Some instructions are defined that produce a 64-bit scalar result. Vector fixed-point
instructions operate on a vector of two 32-bit or four 16-bit fixed-point numbers resident in the 64-bit
GPRs. Vector floating-point instructions operate on a vector of two 32-bit single-precision floating-point
numbers resident in the 64-bit GPRs. Scalar floating-point instructions operate on the lower half of GPRs.
These single-precision floating-point instructions do not have a separate register file; there is a single
shared register file for all instructions. Figure 3-16 shows two different representations of the 64-bit GPRs.
The shaded half is the only region operated on by the 32-bit Power Architecture embedded category
instructions.
Figure 3-16. 64-bit General-Purpose Registers
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GPRx
Lower/Least Significant Word
Upper/Most Significant Word
15 16 47 48
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GPRx