CHAPTER 3 CPU ARCHITECTURE
3.3 Instruction Address Addressing
An instruction address is determined by the program counter (PC) contents. The PC contents are normally
incremented (+1 for each byte) automatically according to the number of bytes of an instruction to be fetched each
time another instruction is executed. When a branch instruction is executed, the branch destination information is set
to the PC and branched by the following addressing (for details of each instruction, refer to 78K/0S Series
Instructions User’s Manual (U11047E)).
3.3.1 Relative addressing
[Function]
The value obtained by adding 8-bit immediate data (displacement value: jdisp8) of an instruction code to the
start address of the following instruction is transferred to the program counter (PC) and branched. The
displacement value is treated as signed two’s complement data (–128 to +127) and bit 7 becomes a sign bit.
This means that information is relatively branched to a location between –128 and +127, from the start
address of the next instruction when relative addressing is used.
This function is carried out when the BR $addr16 instruction or a conditional branch instruction is executed.
[Illustration]
15
15
0
0
...
PC is the start address of
the next instruction of
a BR instruction.
PC
+
8
7
6
α
S
jdisp8
15
0
PC
When S = 0, α indicates all bits 0.
When S = 1, α indicates all bits 1.
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