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4.12 Indirect Addressing, INDF and
FSR Registers
Indirect addressing is a mode of addressing data mem-
ory, where the data memory address in the instruction
is not fixed. An FSR register is used as a pointer to the
data memory location that is to be read or written. Since
this pointer is in RAM, the contents can be modified by
the program. This can be useful for data tables in the
data memory and for software stacks. Figure 4-9
shows the operation of indirect addressing. This shows
the moving of the value to the data memory address
specified by the value of the FSR register.
Indirect addressing is possible by using one of the INDF
registers. Any instruction using the INDF register actu-
ally accesses the register pointed to by the File Select
Register, FSR. Reading the INDF register itself indirectly
(FSR = 0), will read 00h. Writing to the INDF register
indirectly, results in a no operation. The FSR register
contains a 12-bit address which is shown in Figure 4-10.
The INDFn register is not a physical register. Address-
ing INDFn actually addresses the register whose
address is contained in the FSRn register (FSRn is a
pointer). This is indirect addressing.
Example 4-4 shows a simple use of indirect addressing
to clear the RAM in Bank 1 (locations 100h-1FFh) in a
minimum number of instructions.
EXAMPLE 4-4:
HOW TO CLEAR RAM
(BANK 1) USING
INDIRECT ADDRESSING
NEXT
LFSR FSR0 ,0x100
CLRF POSTINC0
BTFSS FSR0H, 1
GOTO NEXT
CONTINUE
;
; Clear INDF
; register and
; inc pointer
; All done with
; Bank1?
; NO, clear next
; YES, continue
There are three indirect addressing registers. To
address the entire data memory space (4096 bytes),
these registers are 12 bits wide. To store the 12 bits of
addressing information, two 8-bit registers are
required. These indirect addressing registers are:
1. FSR0: composed of FSR0H:FSR0L
2. FSR1: composed of FSR1H:FSR1L
3. FSR2: composed of FSR2H:FSR2L
In addition, there are registers INDF0, INDF1 and
INDF2, which are not physically implemented. Reading
or writing to these registers activates indirect address-
ing, with the value in the corresponding FSR register
being the address of the data. If an instruction writes a
value to INDF0, the value will be written to the address
pointed to by FSR0H:FSR0L. A read from INDF1 reads
the data from the address pointed to by
FSR1H:FSR1L. INDFn can be used in code anywhere
an operand can be used.
If INDF0, INDF1, or INDF2 are read indirectly via an
FSR, all ‘0’s are read (zero bit is set). Similarly, if
INDF0, INDF1, or INDF2 are written to indirectly, the
operation will be equivalent to a NOP instruction and the
STATUS bits are not affected.
4.12.1 INDIRECT ADDRESSING
OPERATION
Each FSR register has an INDF register associated
with it, plus four additional register addresses. Perform-
ing an operation on one of these five registers deter-
mines how the FSR will be modified during indirect
addressing.
When data access is done to one of the five INDFn
locations, the address selected will configure the FSRn
register to:
• Do nothing to FSRn after an indirect access (no
change) - INDFn.
• Auto-decrement FSRn after an indirect access
(post-decrement) - POSTDECn.
• Auto-increment FSRn after an indirect access
(post-increment) - POSTINCn.
• Auto-increment FSRn before an indirect access
(pre-increment) - PREINCn.
• Use the value in the WREG register as an offset
to FSRn. Do not modify the value of the WREG or
the FSRn register after an indirect access (no
change) - PLUSWn.
When using the auto-increment or auto-decrement fea-
tures, the effect on the FSR is not reflected in the
STATUS register. For example, if the indirect address
causes the FSR to equal ‘0’, the Z bit will not be set.
Incrementing or decrementing an FSR affects all 12
bits. That is, when FSRnL overflows from an increment,
FSRnH will be incremented automatically.
Adding these features allows the FSRn to be used as a
stack pointer in addition to its uses for table operations
in data memory.
Each FSR has an address associated with it that per-
forms an indexed indirect access. When a data access
to this INDFn location (PLUSWn) occurs, the FSRn is
configured to add the signed value in the WREG regis-
ter and the value in FSR to form the address before an
indirect access. The FSR value is not changed.
If an FSR register contains a value that points to one of
the INDFn, an indirect read will read 00h (zero bit is
set), while an indirect write will be equivalent to a NOP
(STATUS bits are not affected).
If an indirect addressing operation is done where the
target address is an FSRnH or FSRnL register,
the write operation will dominate over the pre- or
post-increment/decrement functions.
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