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9: Debugging Your System

ARM720T CORE CPU MANUAL

EPSON

9-3

9.2

Controlling debugging

The major blocks of the ARM720T processor are:

ARM CPU core

This has hardware support for debug.

EmbeddedICE-RT macrocell

A set of registers and comparators that you use to generate debug

exceptions (such as breakpoints). This unit is described in

The

EmbeddedICE-RT macrocell

on page 9-10.

TAP controller

Controls the action of the scan chains using a JTAG serial

interface. For more details, see

The TAP controller

on page 9-19.

These blocks are shown in Figure 9-2.

Figure 9-2 ARM720T processor block diagram

ARM720T

processor

System control

processor

ARM720T

EmbeddedICE-RT

Scan chain 2

Scan chain 15

ARM720T TAP controller

(also provides scan chain 0

control signals)

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