ATmega16(L)
General Purpose
Register File
The Register File is optimized for the AVR Enhanced RISC instruction set. In order to achieve
the required performance and flexibility, the following input/output schemes are supported by the
Register File:
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One 8-bit output operand and one 8-bit result input
Two 8-bit output operands and one 8-bit result input
Two 8-bit output operands and one 16-bit result input
One 16-bit output operand and one 16-bit result input
shows the structure of the 32 general purpose working registers in the CPU.
Figure 4.
AVR CPU General Purpose Working Registers
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R0
R1
R2
…
R13
General
Purpose
Working
Registers
R14
R15
R16
R17
…
R26
R27
R28
R29
R30
R31
$1A
$1B
$1C
$1D
$1E
$1F
X-register Low Byte
X-register High Byte
Y-register Low Byte
Y-register High Byte
Z-register Low Byte
Z-register High Byte
$0D
$0E
$0F
$10
$11
0
Addr.
$00
$01
$02
Most of the instructions operating on the Register File have direct access to all registers, and
most of them are single cycle instructions.
As shown in
each register is also assigned a data memory address, mapping them
directly into the first 32 locations of the user Data Space. Although not being physically imple-
mented as SRAM locations, this memory organization provides great flexibility in access of the
registers, as the X-, Y-, and Z-pointer Registers can be set to index any register in the file.
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