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8.2.2
TABLAT – TABLE LATCH REGISTER
8.2.4
TABLE POINTER BOUNDARIES
The Table Latch (TABLAT) is an 8-bit register mapped
into the SFR space. The Table Latch is used to hold
8-bit data during data transfers between program
memory and data RAM.
TBLPTR is used in reads, writes and erases of the
Flash program memory.
When a TBLRD is executed, all 22 bits of the Table
Pointer determine which byte is read from program or
configuration memory into TABLAT.
8.2.3
TBLPTR – TABLE POINTER
REGISTER
When a TBLWTis executed, the three LSbs of the Table
Pointer (TBLPTR<2:0>) determine which of the eight
program memory holding registers is written to. When
the timed write to program memory (long write) begins,
the 19 MSbs of the Table Pointer, TBLPTR
(TBLPTR<21:3>), will determine which program
memory block of 8 bytes is written to (TBLPTR<2:0>
are ignored). For more detail, see Section 8.5
“Writing to Flash Program Memory”.
The Table Pointer (TBLPTR) addresses a byte within
the program memory. The TBLPTR is comprised of
three SFR registers: Table Pointer Upper Byte, Table
Pointer High Byte and Table Pointer Low Byte
(TBLPTRU:TBLPTRH:TBLPTRL). These three regis-
ters join to form a 22-bit wide pointer. The low-order
21 bits allow the device to address up to 2 Mbytes of
program memory space. Setting the 22nd bit allows
access to the Device ID, the User ID and the
Configuration bits.
When an erase of program memory is executed, the
16 MSbs of the Table Pointer (TBLPTR<21:6>) point to
the 64-byte block that will be erased. The Least
Significant bits (TBLPTR<5:0>) are ignored.
The TBLPTR is used by the TBLRDand TBLWTinstruc-
tions. These instructions can update the TBLPTR in
one of four ways based on the table operation. These
operations are shown in Table 8-1. These operations
on the TBLPTR only affect the low-order 21 bits.
Figure 8-3 describes the relevant boundaries of
TBLPTR based on Flash program memory operations.
TABLE 8-1:
Example
TABLE POINTER OPERATIONS WITH TBLRDAND TBLWTINSTRUCTIONS
Operation on Table Pointer
TBLRD*
TBLWT*
TBLPTR is not modified
TBLRD*+
TBLWT*+
TBLPTR is incremented after the read/write
TBLPTR is decremented after the read/write
TBLPTR is incremented before the read/write
TBLRD*-
TBLWT*-
TBLRD+*
TBLWT+*
FIGURE 8-3:
TABLE POINTER BOUNDARIES BASED ON OPERATION
21
16 15
TBLPTRH
8
7
TBLPTRL
0
TBLPTRU
TABLE ERASE/WRITE
TBLPTR<21:6>
TABLE WRITE
TBLPTR<5:0>
TABLE READ – TBLPTR<21:0>
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