MPC55xx VLE mode switching

Bloodhound · ‎10-27-2014

Hi All,

If the CPU is running in VLE mode (an e200z760 in my case), is it necessary to switch out of VLE mode before jumping to 'normal' non VLE instructions? If so what register controls this?

Thanks.

EAlepins · ‎11-03-2014

Hi,

I don't see exactly the microcontroller you are using because there is no e200z760 cores in the MPC55xx family... Anyway, the VLE/non-VLE mode is defined by MMU pages. The MAS2 core MMU register has a "VLE" bit which tells if that page must be executed in VLE mode or not. Hence, when jumping from VLE code to non-VLE code, there is nothing special to do, except to make sure the MMU page you come from is really configured as VLE and the destination one as non-VLE.

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Bloodhound · ‎12-10-2014

Thank you for the answers, sorry for the delayed response. And I did have the heading a little misleading, it is a MPC5674F I was working with.

davidtosenovjan · ‎11-04-2014

See chapter 4 of following document:

http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/eng_bulletin/EB687.pdf

EAlepins · ‎11-03-2014

Hi,

I don't see exactly the microcontroller you are using because there is no e200z760 cores in the MPC55xx family... Anyway, the VLE/non-VLE mode is defined by MMU pages. The MAS2 core MMU register has a "VLE" bit which tells if that page must be executed in VLE mode or not. Hence, when jumping from VLE code to non-VLE code, there is nothing special to do, except to make sure the MMU page you come from is really configured as VLE and the destination one as non-VLE.