Intel 8XC251SA Byte, Word, and Dword Registers, Dedicated Registers, Accumulator and B Register

ADDRESS SPACES

3.3.1Byte, Word, and Dword Registers

Depending on its location in the register file, a register is addressable as a byte, a word, and/or a dword, as shown on the right side of Figure 3-6. A register is named for its lowest numbered byte location. For example:

R4 is the byte register consisting of location 4.

WR4 is the word register consisting of registers 4 and 5.

DR4 is the dword register consisting of registers 4–7.

Locations R0–R15 are addressable as bytes, words, or dwords. Locations 16–31 are addressable only as words or dwords. Locations 56–63 are addressable only as dwords. Registers are ad- dressed only by the names shown in Figure 3-6 — except for the 32 registers that comprise the four banks of registers R0–R7, which can also be accessed as locations 00:0000H–00:001FH in the memory space.

3.3.2Dedicated Registers

The register file has four dedicated registers:

•R10 is the B-register

•R11 is the accumulator (ACC)

•DR56 is the extended data pointer, DPX

•DR60 is the extended stack pointer, SPX

These registers are located in the register file; however, R10, R11, and some bytes of DR56 and DR60 are also accessible as SFRs. The bytes of DPX and SPX can be accessed in the register file only by addressing the dword registers. The dedicated registers in the register file and their cor- responding SFRs are illustrated in Figure 3-8 and listed in Table 3-4.

3.3.2.1Accumulator and B Register

The 8-bit accumulator (ACC) is byte register R11, which is also accessible in the SFR space as ACC at S:E0H (Figure 3-8). The B register, used in multiplies and divides, is register R10, which is also accessible in the SFR space as B at S:F0H. Accessing ACC or B as a register is one state faster than accessing them as SFRs.

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