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Program status word (PSW)
The program status word is a register used to hold the instruction execution result and the current status of
the interrupt requests. The IE flag to set maskable interrupt enable/disable is mapped.
Besides 8-bit unit read/write, this register can carry out operations with a bit manipulation instruction and
dedicated instructions (EI and DI).
automatically saved into a stack, and the IE flag is reset to 0. It is restored from the stack with the RETI and
POP PSW instructions.
RESET input sets PSW to 02H.
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Symbol
PSW
IE
Z
IE
0
Disable
Enable
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When a vectored interrupt request is acknowledged, PSW is
Figure 10-5. Program Status Word Configuration
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1
0
AC
0
0
1
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After Reset
0
02H
CY
Used when normal instruction is executed