General-Purpose Register (Register Bank) - Fujitsu F2MC-16LX Hardware Manual

2.3.7

General-Purpose Register (Register Bank)

This section explains the general-purpose register (register bank) functions.
I General-purpose register (register bank)
A register bank consists of 8 words and is used as a general-purpose register for arithmetic
operation in the byte register (R0 - R7), word register (RW0 to RW7) and long-word register
(RL0 to RL3). A register bank is also used as an instruction pointer. Table 2.3-2 "Register
functions" lists the register functions and Figure 2.3-12 "Relationship among registers" shows
the relationship between registers.
Register bank values are not initialized by a reset, the same as for RAM spaces, but the state
before resetting is kept.
At power-on, however, the values are undefined.
Table 2.3-2 Register functions
R0 to R7
RW0 to RW7
RL0 to RL3
R0
R1
R2
R3
Used as operand in different instructions
Note:
R0 is used as the barrel shift counter or normalization instruction counter.
Used as a pointer or operand in different instructions
Note:
RW0 is used as a string instruction counter
Used as a long pointer or operand in different instructions
Figure 2.3-12 Relationship among registers
RW0 RL0
RW1
RW2 RL1
RW3
RL2
R4 RW6
R5
R6 RW7
R7
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