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Chapter 2: LPC176x/5x Memory map
For these areas, both attempted data access and instruction fetch generate an exception.
In addition, a Bus Fault exception is generated for any instruction fetch that maps to an
AHB or APB peripheral address.
Within the address space of an existing APB peripheral, an exception is not generated in
response to an access to an undefined address. Address decoding within each peripheral
is limited to that needed to distinguish defined registers within the peripheral itself. For
example, an access to address 0x4000 D000 (an undefined address within the UART0
space) may result in an access to the register defined at address 0x4000 C000. Details of
such address aliasing within a peripheral space are not defined in the LPC176x/5x
documentation and are not a supported feature.
If software executes a write directly to the flash memory, the flash accelerator will
generate a Bus Fault exception. Flash programming must be accomplished by using the
specified flash programming interface provided by the Boot Code.
Note that the Cortex-M3 core stores the exception flag along with the associated
instruction in the pipeline and processes the exception only if an attempt is made to
execute the instruction fetched from the disallowed address. This prevents accidental
aborts that could be caused by prefetches that occur when code is executed very near a
memory boundary.