Hitachi AP1 Data Book page 311

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• REGISTER AND FLAG
The MCU has nine registers and two flags for the CPU opera-
tions. They are illustrated in Fig. 5 and described in the follow-
ing paragraphs.
• Accumulator (A), B Register (B)
~ccumulator and B Register are 4-bit registers used to hold
the results of Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), and to transfer data
to/from memories, I/O and other registers.
• W Register (W), X Register (X), V Register (V)
W Register is 2-bit, and X and Y Register are 4-bit registers
used for indirect addressing of RAM. Y register is also used
for D-port addressing.
• SPX Register (SPX), Spy Register (SPV)
SPX and SPY Register are 4-bit registers used to assist X and
Y Register respectively.
• Carry
(CA)
Carry (CA) stores the overflow of ALU generated by the
arithmetic operation. It is also affected by SEC, REC, ROTL and
ROTR instructions.
During interrupt servicing, Carry is pushed onto the stack
and restored back from the stack by RTNI instruction. (It's not
affected by RTN instruction.)
• Status (ST)
Status (ST) holds the ALU overflow, ALU non-zero and the
results of bit test instruction for the arithmetic or compare in-
struction. It is used for a branch condition of BR, BRL, CAL or
CALL instructions. The value of the Status remains unchanged
until the next arithmetic, compare or bit test instruction is ex-
ecuted. Status becomes "1" after the BR, BRL, CAL or CALL
instruction has been executed (irrespective of its executionl
skip). During the interrupt servicing, Status is pushed onto the
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stack and restored back from the stack by RTNI instruction.
(It's not affected by RTN instruction.)
• Program Counter (PC)
Program Counter is a 14-bit binary counter for ROM address-
ing.
• Stack Pointer (SP)
Stack Pointer is used to point the address of the next stack-
ing area up to 16 levels.
The Stack Pointer is initialized to locate $3FF on the RAM
address, and is decremented by 4 as data pushed into the stack,
and incremented by 4 as data restored back from the stack.
• INTERRUPT
The MCU can be interrupted by five different sources: the
external signals (INTo, INTd, timer/counter (TIMER-A,
TIMER-B), and serial interface (SERIAL). In each sources,
the Interrupt Request Flag, Interrupt Mask and interrupt vector
address will be used to control and maintain the interrupt re-
quest. The Interrupt Enable Flag is also used to control the
total interrupt operations.
• Interrupt Control Bit and Interrupt Service
The interrupt control bit is mapped on $000 to $003 of the
RAM address and accessable by RAM bit manipulation instruc-
tion. (The Interrupt Request Flag (IF) cannot be set by soft-
ware.) The Interrupt Enable Flag (lIE) and Interrupt Request
Flag (IF) are set to "0", and the Interrupt Mask (1M) is set to
"I" at the initialization by MCU reset.
Fig. 6 shows the interrupt block diagram. Table I shows the
interrupt priority and vector addresses, and Table 2 shows the
conditions that the interrupt service is executed by anyone of
the five interrupt sources.
The interrupt request is generated when the Interrupt Re-
quest Flag is set to "I" and the Interrupt Mask is "0", If the
Interrupt Enable Flag is "I", then the interrupt will be activated
and vector addresses will be generated from the priority PLA
corresponding to the five interrupt sources.
Fig. 7 shows the interrupt services sequence, and Fig. 8
shows the interrupt flowchart. If the interrupt is requested, the
instruction finishes its execution in the first cycle. The Inter-
rupt Enable Flag is reset in the second cycle. In the second and
third cycles, the Carry, Status and Program Counter are pushed
onto the stack. In the third cycle, the instruction is executed
again after jumping to the vector address.
In each vector address, program JMPL instruction to branch
to a starting address of the interrupt routine. The Interrupt
Request Flag which caused the interrupt service has to be reset
by software in the interrupt routine,