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Preliminary

DS40143E-page 21

PIC16C55X

4.3

PCL and PCLATH

The program counter (PC) is 13-bits wide. The low byte

comes from the PCL register, which is a readable and

writable register. The high bits (PC<12:8>) are not

directly readable or writable and come from PCLATH.

On any RESET, the PC is cleared. Figure 4-6 shows

the two situations for the loading of the PC. The upper

example in the figure shows how the PC is loaded on a

write to PCL (PCLATH<4:0>

 PCH). The lower exam-

ple in Figure 4-6 shows how the PC is loaded during a

CALL

or GOTO instruction (PCLATH<4:3>

 PCH).

FIGURE 4-6:

LOADING OF PC IN



DIFFERENT SITUATIONS

4.3.1

COMPUTED GOTO

A computed GOTO is accomplished by adding an offset

to the program counter (ADDWF PCL). When doing a

table read using a computed GOTO method, care

should be exercised if the table location crosses a PCL

memory boundary (each 256 byte block). Refer to the

application note “Implementing a Table Read" (AN556).

4.3.2

STACK

The PIC16C55X family has an 8-level deep x 13-bit

wide hardware stack (Figure 4-1 and Figure 4-2). The

stack space is not part of either program or data space

and the stack pointer is not readable or writable. The

PC is PUSHed onto the stack when a CALL instruction

is executed or an interrupt causes a branch. The stack

is POPed in the event of a RETURN, RETLW or a RET-

FIE

instruction execution. PCLATH is not affected by a

PUSH or POP operation.

The stack operates as a circular buffer. This means that

after the stack has been PUSHed eight times, the ninth

push overwrites the value that was stored from the first

push. The tenth push overwrites the second push (and

so on).

4.4

Indirect Addressing, INDF and

FSR Registers

The INDF register is not a physical register. Addressing

the INDF register will cause indirect addressing.

Indirect addressing is possible by using the INDF reg-

ister. Any instruction using the INDF register actually

accesses data pointed to by the file select register

(FSR). Reading INDF itself indirectly will produce 00h.

Writing to the INDF register indirectly results in a no-

operation (although status bits may be affected). An

effective 9-bit address is obtained by concatenating the

8-bit FSR register and the IRP bit (STATUS<7>), as

shown in Figure 4-7. However, IRP is not used in the

PIC16C55X.

A simple program to clear RAM locations 20h-2Fh

using indirect addressing is shown in Example 4-1.

EXAMPLE 4-1:

INDIRECT ADDRESSING

PCLATH<4:0>

PCLATH

Instruction with

ALU result

GOTO, CALL

Opcode <10:0>

11 10

PCLATH<4:3>

PCH

PCL

PCLATH

PCH

PCL

PCL as

Destination

Note 1: There are no status bits to indicate stack

overflow or stack underflow conditions.

2: There are no instructions mnemonics

called PUSH or POP. These are actions

that occur from the execution of the

CALL,

RETURN,

RETLW

and RETFIE

instructions, or vectoring to an interrupt

address.

movlw

0x20

;initialize pointer

movwf

FSR

;to RAM

clrf

INDF

;clear INDF register

incf

FSR

;inc pointer

btfss

FSR,4

;all done?

goto

;no clear next

;yes continue

CONTINUE:

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