PIC18F87K22 Datasheet, PDF (94/548 Pages) Microchip Technology – 64/80-Pin, High-Performance, 1-Mbit Enhanced Flash Microcontrollers with 12-Bit A/D and nanoWatt XLP Technology

PIC18F87K22 FAMILY
FIGURE 6-7:
USE OF THE BANK SELECT REGISTER (DIRECT ADDRESSING)
7
BSR⁽¹⁾
0
0 0 000 010
Bank Select⁽²⁾
000h ^{Data Memory} _00h
Bank 0
100h
FFh
00h
Bank 1
200h
FFh
00h
Bank 2
300h
FFh
00h
7
From Opcode⁽²⁾
0
1 1 11 1 11 1 11 11
Bank 3
through
Bank 13
E00h
FFh
00h
Bank 14
F00h
FFh
00h
Bank 15
FFFh
FFh
Note 1:
2:
The Access RAM bit of the instruction can be used to force an override of the selected bank (BSR<3:0>)
to the registers of the Access Bank.
The MOVFF instruction embeds the entire 12-bit address in the instruction.
6.3.2 ACCESS BANK
While the use of the BSR, with an embedded 8-bit
address, allows users to address the entire range of data
memory, it also means that the user must ensure that the
correct bank is selected. If not, data may be read from,
or written to, the wrong location. This can be disastrous
if a GPR is the intended target of an operation, but an
SFR is written to instead. Verifying and/or changing the
BSR for each read or write to data memory can become
very inefficient.
To streamline access for the most commonly used data
memory locations, the data memory is configured with
an Access Bank, which allows users to access a
mapped block of memory without specifying a BSR.
The Access Bank consists of the first 96 bytes of
memory (00h-5Fh) in Bank 0 and the last 160 bytes of
memory (60h-FFh) in Bank 15. The lower half is known
as the “Access RAM” and is composed of GPRs. The
upper half is where the device’s SFRs are mapped.
These two areas are mapped contiguously in the
Access Bank and can be addressed in a linear fashion
by an eight-bit address (Figure 6-6).
The Access Bank is used by core PIC18 instructions
that include the Access RAM bit (the ‘a’ parameter in
the instruction). When ‘a’ is equal to ‘1’, the instruction
uses the BSR and the 8-bit address included in the
opcode for the data memory address. When ‘a’ is ‘0’,
however, the instruction is forced to use the Access
Bank address map. In that case, the current value of
the BSR is ignored entirely.
Using this “forced” addressing allows the instruction to
operate on a data address in a single cycle without
updating the BSR first. For 8-bit addresses of 60h and
above, this means that users can evaluate and operate
on SFRs more efficiently. The Access RAM below 60h
is a good place for data values that the user might need
to access rapidly, such as immediate computational
results or common program variables.
Access RAM also allows for faster and more code
efficient context saving and switching of variables.
The mapping of the Access Bank is slightly different
when the extended instruction set is enabled (XINST
Configuration bit = 1). This is discussed in more detail
in Section 6.6.3 “Mapping the Access Bank in
Indexed Literal Offset Mode”.
6.3.3
GENERAL PURPOSE
REGISTER FILE
PIC18 devices may have banked memory in the GPR
area. This is data RAM which is available for use by all
instructions. GPRs start at the bottom of Bank 0
(address 000h) and grow upwards towards the bottom of
the SFR area. GPRs are not initialized by a Power-on
Reset and are unchanged on all other Resets.
DS39960B-page 94
Preliminary
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