Texas Instruments TM4C1294NCPDT User Manual

Figure 2-1. CPU Block Diagram
Private Peripheral
Bus
(internal)
Data
Watchpoint
and Trace
Interrupts
Debug
Sleep
Instrumentation
Trace Macrocell
Trace
Port
Interface
Unit
CM4 Core
Instructions Data
Flash
Patch and
Breakpoint
Memory
Protection
Unit
Debug
Access Port
Nested
Vectored
Interrupt
Controller
Serial Wire JTAG
Debug Port
Bus
Matrix
Adv. Peripheral
Bus
I-code bus
D-code bus
System bus
ROM
Table
Serial
Wire
Output
Trace
Port
(SWO)
ARM
Cortex-M4F
FPU
Embedded
Trace
Macrocell
2.2 Overview
2.2.1 System-Level Interface
The Cortex-M4F processor provides multiple interfaces using AMBA® technology to provide
high-speed, low-latency memory accesses. The core supports unaligned data accesses and
implements atomic bit manipulation that enables faster peripheral controls, system spinlocks, and
thread-safe Boolean data handling.
The Cortex-M4F processor has a memory protection unit (MPU) that provides fine-grain memory
control, enabling applications to implement security privilege levels and separate code, data and
stack on a task-by-task basis.
2.2.2 Integrated Configurable Debug
The Cortex-M4F processor implements a complete hardware debug solution, providing high system
visibility of the processor and memory through either a traditional JTAG port or a 2-pin Serial Wire
Debug (SWD) port that is ideal for microcontrollers and other small package devices. The Tiva™
C Series implementation replaces the ARM SW-DP and JTAG-DP with the ARM
CoreSight™-compliant Serial Wire JTAG Debug Port (SWJ-DP) interface. The SWJ-DP interface
combines the SWD and JTAG debug ports into one module. See the ARM® Debug Interface V5
Architecture Specification for details on SWJ-DP.
For system trace, the processor integrates an Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM) alongside data
watchpoints and a profiling unit. To enable simple and cost-effective profiling of the system trace
events, a Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) can export a stream of software-generated messages, data
trace, and profiling information through a single pin.
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Texas Instruments TM4C1294NCPDT Specifications

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Brand	Texas Instruments
Model	TM4C1294NCPDT
Category	Microcontrollers
Language	English