C8051F352 Datasheet, PDF (144/234 Pages) Silicon Laboratories – 8 k ISP Flash MCU Family

C8051F350/1/2/3
18.3. General Purpose Port I/O
Port pins that remain unassigned by the Crossbar and are not used by analog peripherals can be used for
general purpose I/O. Ports P0–P2 are accessed through corresponding special function registers (SFRs)
that are both byte addressable and bit addressable. When writing to a Port, the value written to the SFR is
latched to maintain the output data value at each pin. When reading, the logic levels of the Port's input pins
are returned regardless of the XBRn settings (i.e., even when the pin is assigned to another signal by the
Crossbar, the Port register can always read its corresponding Port I/O pin). The exception to this is the
execution of the read-modify-write instructions that target a Port Latch register as the destination. The
read-modify-write instructions when operating on a Port SFR are the following: ANL, ORL, XRL, JBC, CPL,
INC, DEC, DJNZ and MOV, CLR or SETB, when the destination is an individual bit in a Port SFR. For
these instructions, the value of the register (not the pin) is read, modified, and written back to the SFR.
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