Texas Instruments MSP50C6xx Accumulator Pointers AP0-AP3, Indirect Register R0-R7, Bits 16

System Registers

During accumulator read operations, both An and offset An~ are fetched. Depending on the instruction, either or both registers may be used. In addition, some write operations allow either register to be selected.

The accumulator block can also be used in string operations. The selected accumulator (An or An~) is the least significant word (LSW) of the string and is restored at the end of the operation. String instructions are described in detail in section 4.8.

4.2.9Accumulator Pointers (AP0–AP3)

The accumulator pointer (AP) registers are 5-bit registers which point to one of the 32 available accumulators. The APs contain the index of accumulators. Many instructions allow preincrement or predecrement accumulator pointers. Such instructions have a suffix of ++A for preincrement or – –A for predecrement. Accumulator pointers can be stored or loaded from memory using various addressing modes. Limited arithmetic operations can be performed on accumulator pointers.

Bit	Bits 16 – 5	4	3	2	1	0
AP0–AP3	Not used		Points to An
			n = val (b0–b4)

4.2.10 Indirect Register (R0–R7)

Indirect registers, R0–R7, are 16-bit registers that are used in various addressing modes or as general-purpose registers. R0, R1, R2 and R3 can be usedsolely as general-purpose registers. These registers can also be used as indirect registers with relative addressing.

The R4 or LOOP register is used with instructions BEGLOOP and ENDLOOP to define a hardware controlled loop. If R4 is loaded with a value, n (0 ≤ n ≤ 32767), the BEGLOOP and ENDLOOP block will be executed n+2 times. The loop stops when R4 becomes negative.

The R5 or INDEX register is used with indirect addressing and relative addres- sing modes of certain instructions.

The R6 or PAGE register is used with page relative addressing and relative flag addressing.

The R7 or STACK register holds the pointer to the stack. It can be used as a general-purpose register as long as no CALL/RET instructions are used before restoring it with its old value. However, this register can only be used as a general-purpose register when maskable interrupts are disabled. The old

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