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Glossary

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ARM720T CORE CPU MANUAL

Test Access Port

The collection of four mandatory and one optional terminals that form the

input/output and control interface to a JTAG boundary-scan architecture.

The mandatory terminals are TDI, TDO, TMS, and TCK. The optional

terminal is nTRST.

Thumb instruction

A halfword which specifies an operation for an ARM processor in Thumb

state to perform. Thumb instructions must be halfword-aligned.

Thumb state

A processor that is executing Thumb (16-bit) instructions is operating in

Thumb state.

UND

See

Undefined.

Undefined

Indicates an instruction that generates an undefined instruction trap.

UNP

See

Unpredictable

Unpredictable

Means the result of an instruction cannot be relied upon. Unpredictable

instructions must not halt or hang the processor, or any parts of the

system.

Unpredictable fields

Do not contain valid data, and a value can vary from moment to moment,

instruction to instruction, and implementation to implementation.

Watchpoint

A location in the image that is monitored. If the value stored there changes,

the debugger halts execution of the image.

See also

Breakpoint.