Texas Instruments MSP50C6xx manual RAM Overlay, Adding Customer Variables

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RAM Overlay

6.4.2RAM Overlay

dac_buffer equ save_dac_r0 equ save_dac_regs equ save_dac_stat equ

RAM is reserved for variables in the following way. The start address of the variable is equal to the address of the previous variable, plus the size of that variable. The size of VAR1 thus depends on the start address of the next variable. In the example below, dac_buffer starts 2 bytes (one word) after current_buffer. This means that current_buffer must be one word long. The variable after dac_buffer, save_dac_r0, starts 2 bytes (one word) after dac_buffer. Therefore, dac_buffer is one word long. Similarly, save_dac_stat starts 10 bytes (5 words) after save_dac_regs, therefore, save_dac_regs is a variable five words long.

current_buffer

+

 

2

 

* 1

;RESW

1

dac_buffer + 2

 

*

 

1

 

 

;RESW

1

save_dac_r0 +

2

 

*

 

1

 

;RESW

5

save_dac_regs

+

 

2

 

*

5

;RESW

1

The above method should be used to declare all customer variables. This is illustrated in the next section.

6.4.3Adding Customer Variables

New variables should either be added directly to MAIN_RAM.IRX or should be included as a module RAM.IRX file. To add a variable new_var, size one word, would require adding the variable itself and modifying the RAMEND_CUSTOMER constant. The original MAIN_RAM.IRX file is shown below.

;****************************************************************

;MAIN_RAM.IRX

;Start of memory for MAIN module is defined in

;include”..\ram\ram.irx” ;****************************************************************

;General purpose variables

ledpattern

equ

RAMSTART_CUSTOMER + 2 * 1

keypress

equ

ledpattern + 2 * 1

tabadr

equ

leypress + 2 * 1

; Time 1 interrupt variables

save_tim1_stat

equ

save_tim1_a0a + 2 * 1

save_tim2_a0

equ

save_tim2_stat + 2 * 1

save_tim2_a0a

equ

save_tim2_a0 + 2 * 1

; Time 2 interrupt variables

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Texas Instruments MSP50C6xx manual RAM Overlay, Adding Customer Variables