ST72104G, ST72215G, ST72216G, ST72254G
5 CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
5.1 INTRODUCTION
Accumulator (A)
The Accumulator is an 8-bit general purpose reg-
ister used to hold operands and the results of the
arithmetic and logic calculations and to manipulate
data.
This CPU has a full 8-bit architecture and contains
six internal registers allowing efficient 8-bit data
manipulation.
Index Registers (X and Y)
5.2 MAIN FEATURES
In indexed addressing modes, these 8-bit registers
are used to create either effective addresses or
temporary storage areas for data manipulation.
(The Cross-Assembler generates a precede in-
struction (PRE) to indicate that the following in-
struction refers to the Y register.)
■ 63 basic instructions
■ Fast 8-bit by 8-bit multiply
■ 17 main addressing modes
■ Two 8-bit index registers
■ 16-bit stack pointer
The Y register is not affected by the interrupt auto-
matic procedures (not pushed to and popped from
the stack).
■ Low power modes
■ Maskable hardware interrupts
■ Non-maskable software interrupt
Program Counter (PC)
The program counter is a 16-bit register containing
the address of the next instruction to be executed
by the CPU. It is made of two 8-bit registers PCL
(Program Counter Low which is the LSB) and PCH
(Program Counter High which is the MSB).
5.3 CPU REGISTERS
The 6 CPU registers shown in Figure 1 are not
present in the memory mapping and are accessed
by specific instructions.
Figure 6. CPU Registers
7
0
ACCUMULATOR
RESET VALUE = XXh
7
0
0
X INDEX REGISTER
Y INDEX REGISTER
RESET VALUE = XXh
7
RESET VALUE = XXh
PCL
PCH
7
8
15
0
PROGRAM COUNTER
RESET VALUE = RESET VECTOR @ FFFEh-FFFFh
7
1
0
1
1
1
1
H I N Z
C
CONDITION CODE REGISTER
RESET VALUE =
8
1
X 1 X X X
0
15
7
STACK POINTER
RESET VALUE = STACK HIGHER ADDRESS
X = Undefined Value
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