INTERFACING WITH EXTERNAL MEMORY

Table 13-7. BUSCONx Addresses and Reset Values

Register

Address

Reset Value

 

 

 

BUSCON0

1F44H

03H

 

 

 

BUSCON1

1F4CH

00H

 

 

 

BUSCON2

1F54H

00H

 

 

 

BUSCON3

1F5CH

00H

 

 

 

BUSCON4

1F64H

00H

 

 

 

BUSCON5

1F6CH

00H

 

 

 

13.3.3 Chip-select Unit Initial Conditions

A chip reset produces the following initial conditions for the chip-select unit:

ADDRMSKx = XFFFH.

ADDRCOM0 = 0F20H. This asserts CS0# for the 256-byte address range F2000–F20FFH.

ADDRCOM1–ADDRCOM5 = X000H.

For the fetch of chip configuration byte 0 (CCB0), BUSCON0 is initialized for an 8-bit bus width, multiplexed mode, and three wait states (DEMUX = 0, BW16 = 0, WS0 = 1, WS1 = 1).

Before the fetch of chip configuration byte 1 (CCB1), the values of DEMUX, BW16, WS0, and WS1 in BUSCON0 are loaded from CCB0. The external bus is configured according to the new values.

The first lines of your program should perform two tasks:

1.Set the stack pointer.

2.Initialize all of the chip-select registers (ADDRCOMx, ADDRMSKx, and BUSCONx, by using the procedure in “Initializing the Chip-select Registers.”

13.3.4 Initializing the Chip-select Registers

When initializing the chip-select parameters (or modifying them at any time), it is important to avoid a condition in which two chip-selects outputs have overlapping address ranges and different bus-parameter values (wait states, bus width, and multiplexing). Accessing a location in such an overlapping address range can cause unpredictable results.

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Microcontroller, 80C196NU, 8XC196NP specifications

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