CNTSR, Counter Status Register

The CNTSR characteristics are:

Purpose

Provides counter frequency status information.

Configuration

The power domain of CNTSR is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED.

For more information, see 'Power and reset domains for the system level implementation of the Generic Timer'.

Attributes

CNTSR is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

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FCACKRES0DBGHRES0

FCACK, bits [31:8]

Frequency change acknowledge. Indicates the currently selected entry in the Frequency modes table, see 'The Frequency modes table'.

The reset behaviour of this field is:

Bits [7:2]

Reserved, RES0.

DBGH, bit [1]

Indicates whether the counter is halted because the Halt-on-debug signal is asserted:

DBGHMeaning
0b0

Counter is not halted.

0b1

Counter is halted.

The reset behaviour of this field is:

Bit [0]

Reserved, RES0.

Accessing CNTSR

In a system that supports Secure and Non-secure memory maps the CNTControlBase frame, that includes this register, is implemented only in the Secure memory map.

CNTSR can be accessed through the memory-mapped interfaces:

ComponentFrameOffsetInstance
TimerCNTControlBase0x004CNTSR

Accesses on this interface are RO.


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