Register Addressing - Samsung S3C84I8 User Manual

S3C84I8/F84I8/C84I9/F84I9 ADDRESS SPACES

REGISTER ADDRESSING

The S3C8-series register architecture provides an efficient method of working register addressing that takes full
advantage of shorter instruction formats to reduce execution time.
With Register (R) addressing mode, in which the operand value is the content of a specific register or register
pair, you can access any location in the register file except for set 2. With working register addressing, you use a
register pointer to specify an 8-byte working register space in the register file and an 8-bit register within that
space.
Registers are addressed either as a single 8-bit register or as a paired 16-bit register space. In a 16-bit register
pair, the address of the first 8-bit register is always an even number and the address of the next register is always
an odd number. The most significant byte of the 16-bit data is always stored in the even-numbered register, and
the least significant byte is always stored in the next (+1) odd-numbered register.
Working register addressing differs from Register addressing as it uses a register pointer to identify a specific
8-byte working register space in the internal register file and a specific 8-bit register within that space.
MSB LSB n = Even address
Rn Rn+1
Figure 2-11. 16-Bit Register Pair
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