XC2200 Derivatives
System Units (Vol. 1 of 2)
Memory Organization
User’s Manual
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MemoryX2K, V1.3
bank selected by the Context Pointer register (CP) is active at a given time, however.
Selecting a new active global register bank is simply done by updating the CP register.
A particular Switch Context (SCXT) instruction performs register bank switching by
automatically saving the previous context and loading the new context. The number of
implemented register banks (arbitrary sizes) is limited only by the size of the available
DPRAM.
Note: The local GPR banks are not memory mapped and the GPRs cannot be accessed
using a long or indirect memory address.
PEC Source and Destination Pointers
The source and destination address pointers for data transfers on the PEC channels are
located in the XSFR area.
Each channel uses a pair of pointers stored in two subsequent word locations with the
source pointer (SRCPx) on the lower and the destination pointer (DSTPx) on the higher
word address (x = 7 … 0). An additional segment register stores the associated source
and destination segments, so PEC transfers can move data from/to any location within
the complete addressing range.
Whenever a PEC data transfer is performed, the pair of source and destination pointers
(selected by the specified PEC channel number) accesses the locations referred to by
these pointers independently of the current DPP register contents.
If a PEC channel is not used, the corresponding pointer locations can be used for other
purposes.
Note: Writing to any byte of the PEC pointers causes the not addressed complementary
byte to be cleared.
