CL-PS7500FE
System-on-a-Chip for Internet Appliance
All defined bits are cleared on reset, except bits 8, 10, and 11 (DA, AB, and SB) which are set.
Apart from by using the WFC instruction, the AB bit can only be set by the arithmetic unit and the SB bit
can only be set by the load-store unit.
Only the arithmetic unit can write bits 31, 28:26, 23:12, 9, 7:0 of the FPCR.
The behavior of the FPCR when the RFC and WFC instructions are executed is as follows:
q A read of the FPCR by RFC clears the SB, AB and DA bits of the FPCR, and leaves the other bits of the
FPCR unchanged.
q A write of the FPCR by WFC writes the SB, AB, & DA bits of the FPCR, and leaves the other bits of the FPCR
unchanged.
NOTE: This information about the FPCR in the FPA is only supplied to aid with modifications to the FPA support
code. Using it for any other purpose is likely to lead to compatibility problems and is strongly discouraged.
June 1997
ADVANCE DATA BOOK v2.0
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