Processor Registers; Control Registers - NEC 78K0 User Manual

3.2 Processor Registers

78K0/KC1 products incorporate the following processor registers.

3.2.1 Control registers

The control registers control the program sequence, statuses, and stack memory. The control registers consist of
a program counter (PC), a program status word (PSW) and a stack pointer (SP).
(1) Program counter (PC)
The program counter is a 16-bit register that 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 and register contents are set.
RESET input sets the reset vector table values at addresses 0000H and 0001H to the program counter.
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(2) Program status word (PSW)
The program status word is an 8-bit register consisting of various flags set/reset by instruction execution.
Program status word contents are automatically stacked upon interrupt request generation or PUSH PSW
instruction execution and are restored upon execution of the RETB, RETI, and POP PSW instructions.
RESET input sets the PSW to 02H.
PSW
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Figure 3-11. Format of Program Counter
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Figure 3-12. Format of Program Status Word
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