Processor Registers; Control Registers; Configuration Of Program Counter; Configuration Of Program Status Word - NEC switch User Manual

3.2 Processor Registers

The µ PD789800 Subseries provides the following on-chip processor registers.

3.2.1 Control registers

The control registers contain special functions to control the program sequence, statuses and stack memory. A
program counter, a program status word, and a stack pointer are the control registers.
(1) Program counter (PC)
The program counter is a 16-bit register which holds the address information of the next program to be
executed.
In normal operation, the PC is automatically incremented according to the number of bytes of the instruction to
be fetched. When a branch instruction is executed, immediate data or register contents are set.
RESET input sets the program counter to the reset vector table values at addresses 0000H and 0001H.
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(2) Program status word (PSW)
The program status word is an 8-bit register consisting of various flags to be set/reset by instruction execution.
Program status word contents are automatically stacked upon interrupt request generation or PUSH PSW
instruction execution and are automatically restored upon execution of the RETI and POP PSW instructions.
RESET input sets the PSW to 02H.
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Figure 3-5. Configuration of Program Counter
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Figure 3-6. Configuration of Program Status Word
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