Breakpoints

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The CPU Core Complex supports two hardware breakpoint registers, which can be flexibly shared between Debug mode and Machine mode.

When a breakpoint register is selected with tselect, the other CSRs access the following information for the selected breakpoint:

Table 1. Breakpoint Registers
TDR CSRs when used as Breakpoints
CSR Name Breakpoint Alias Description

tselect

tdata1

tdata2

tdata3

tselect

mcontrol

maddress

N/A

Breakpoint selection index

Breakpoint Match control

Breakpoint Match address

Reserved