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Cycle Timings and Interlock Behavior
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Only cycle times for aligned accesses are given because Unaligned accesses to the PC are not
supported.
The processor includes a 4-entry return stack that can predict procedure returns. Any LDR
instruction to the PC with an immediate post-indexed offset of plus four, and the stack pointer
R13 as the base register is considered a procedure return.
Table 14-14 shows the explanation of
<addr_md_1cycle>
and
<addr_md_3cycle>
used in
Table 14-12 on page 14-17 and Table 14-13 on page 14-17.
14.11.1 Base register update
The base register update for load or store instructions occurs in the ALU pipeline. To prevent an
interlock for back-to-back load or store instructions reusing the same base register, there is a
local forwarding path to recycle the updated base register around the address generator. This
only applies when the load or store instruction with base write-back uses pre-increment
addressing, and is a single load or store instruction that is not a load or store double instruction
or load or store multiple instruction.
For example, with
R2
aligned the following instruction sequence take three cycles to execute:
LDR R5, [R2, #4]!
LDR <cond> pc, [sp, #<imm>]
(!)
8 1 - Conditional predicted incorrectly, but return
stack predicted correctly
LDR <cond> pc, [sp], #cn
s8 1 -
LDR pc, <addr_md_1cycle>
a
91 - -
LDR pc, <addr_md_3cycle>
a
11 1 - -
a. See Table 14-14 for an explanation of
<addr_md_1cycle>
and
<addr_md_3cycle>
. For condition code failing cycle counts, you
must use the cycles for the non-PC destination variants.
Table 14-13 Cycle timing behavior for loads to the PC (continued)
Example instruction Cycles
Memory
cycles
Result
latency
Comments
Table 14-14 <addr_md_1cycle> and <addr_md_3cycle> LDR example instruction explanation
Example instruction Very Early Reg Comments
<addr_md_1cycle>
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>, #<imm>] (!) <Rn>
If post-increment addressing or pre-increment
addressing with an immediate offset, or a
positive register offset with no shift or shift
LSL #1, 2 or 3, then 1-issue cycle
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>, <Rm>] (!) <Rn>, <Rm>
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>, <Rm>, LSL #1, 2 or 3] (!) <Rn>, <Rm>
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>], #<imm> <Rn>
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>], +/-<Rm> <Rn>, <Rm>
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>], +/-<Rm> <shift> <cns> <Rn>, <Rm>
<addr_md_3cycle>
LDR <Rt>, [<Rn>, -<Rm>] (!) <Rn>,<Rm>
If pre-increment addressing with a negative
register offset or shift other than LSL #1, 2 or
3, then 3-issue cycles
LDR <Rt>, [Rn, +/-<Rm> <shift> <cns>] (!) <Rn>,<Rm>