Windowing And Addressing Modes - Intel 8XC196K Series User Manual

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The C compiler can also take advantage of this feature if the "windows" switch is enabled. For

details, see the MCS 96 microcontroller architecture software products in the Development Tools

Windowing and Addressing Modes

Once windowing is enabled, the windowed locations can be accessed both through the window

using direct (8-bit) addressing and by the usual 16-bit addressing. The lower register file locations

that are covered by the window are always accessible by indirect or indexed operations. To re-

enable direct access to the entire lower register file, clear the WSR. To enable direct access to a

particular location in the lower register file, you can select a smaller window that does not cover

that location.

When windowing is enabled:

a register-direct instruction that uses an address within the lower register file actually

accesses the window in the upper register file;

an indirect, indexed, or zero-register instruction that uses an address within either the lower

The following sample code illustrates the difference between register-direct and indexed address-

ing when using windowing.

40H, 380H[0]

; pushes the contents of WSR onto the stack

; select window 12H, a 128-byte block

; The next instruction uses register-direct addr

; mem_word(40H)←mem_word(40H) + mem_word(380H)

; The next two instructions use indirect addr

; mem_word(40H)←mem_word(40H) + mem_word(80H +0)

; mem_word(40H)←mem_word(40H) + mem_word(380H +0)

; reloads the previous contents into WSR

MEMORY PARTITIONS