HD6433937 Datasheet, PDF (25/521 Pages) Hitachi Semiconductor – Hardware Manual

Section 2 CPU
2.1 Overview
The H8/300L CPU has sixteen 8-bit general registers, which can also be paired as eight 16-bit
registers. Its concise instruction set is designed for high-speed operation.
2.1.1 Features
Features of the H8/300L CPU are listed below.
• General-register architecture
Sixteen 8-bit general registers, also usable as eight 16-bit general registers
• Instruction set with 55 basic instructions, including:
 Multiply and divide instructions
 Powerful bit-manipulation instructions
• Eight addressing modes
 Register direct
 Register indirect
 Register indirect with displacement
 Register indirect with post-increment or pre-decrement
 Absolute address
 Immediate
 Program-counter relative
 Memory indirect
• 64-kbyte address space
• High-speed operation
 All frequently used instructions are executed in two to four states
 High-speed arithmetic and logic operations
 8- or 16-bit register-register add or subtract: 0.4 µs*
 8 × 8-bit multiply:
2.8 µs*
 16 ÷ 8-bit divide:
2.8 µs*
• Low-power operation modes
SLEEP instruction for transfer to low-power operation
Note: * These values are at ø = 5 MHz.
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