Rabbit 6000 User’s Manual
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32. B
REAKPOINTS
32.1 Overview
The Rabbit 6000 contains seven hardware breakpoints to support debugging. Each hardware breakpoint
consists of a 24-bit address match register and a 24-bit mask register. A breakpoint can be generated on an
address match for execution, data read, data write, or any combination thereof. The mask register serves to
mask off selected bits from the address compare. A “one” in a particular bit position in the mask register
inhibits the corresponding bit in the address match register from contributing to the address match condi-
tion.
When a match occurs, a Level 3 breakpoint interrupt is generated. Note that this means that breakpoints
behave differently when the processor is running at Interrupt Priority 3 — the interrupt is generated but will
not be handled until the processor drops to a lower priority.
In most cases, a code execution interrupt will be handled at the end of the instruction in which the match
occurred. However, because of the time required to perform a 24-bit address match in the processor, a code
execution breakpoint that is set on a single-byte, 2-clock instruction will not be enabled at the end of that
instruction, but the interrupt will instead occur at the end of the next instruction.
Note that a breakpoint may be forced to be pending by setting the corresponding bit in BDCR. This feature
allows a breakpoint request to be used as a virtual single-step request by always setting the appropriate bit
in the interrupt handler. There is a particular sequence of instructions required to exit properly when the
interrupt is left pending.
DMA transfers are treated as normal data reads and writes, although the DMA transfer will complete
before the interrupt is taken.
Breakpoints can be enabled for the User Mode, the System Mode, or both.
Another breakpoint feature is the ability to disable the RST 28h instruction. The RST 28h vector was often
used as a breakpoint feature by adding that instruction to code; by enabling a bit in BDCR, the RST 28h
instruction will execute as a NOP instead, providing an easy way to disable that type of breakpoint.
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