Bit Addressable Locations
In addition to direct access to data memory organized as bytes, the sixteen data memory locations at 0x20 through 0x2F are also ac-
cessible as 128 individually addressable bits. Each bit has a bit address from 0x00 to 0x7F. Bit 0 of the byte at 0x20 has bit address
0x00 while bit 7 of the byte at 0x20 has bit address 0x07. Bit 7 of the byte at 0x2F has bit address 0x7F. A bit access is distinguished
from a full byte access by the type of instruction used (bit source or destination operands as opposed to a byte source or destination).
The MCS-51
™
assembly language allows an alternate notation for bit addressing of the form XX.B where XX is the byte address and B
is the bit position within the byte. For example, the instruction:
Mov C, 22.3h
moves the Boolean value at 0x13 (bit 3 of the byte at location 0x22) into the Carry flag.
Stack
A programmer's stack can be located anywhere in the 256-byte data memory. The stack area is designated using the Stack Pointer
(SP) SFR. The SP will point to the last location used. The next value pushed on the stack is placed at SP+1 and then SP is incremen-
ted. A reset initializes the stack pointer to location 0x07. Therefore, the first value pushed on the stack is placed at location 0x08, which
is also the first register (R0) of register bank 1. Thus, if more than one register bank is to be used, the SP should be initialized to a
location in the data memory not being used for data storage. The stack depth can extend up to 256 bytes.
External RAM
On devices with more than 256 bytes of on-chip RAM, the additional RAM is mapped into the external data memory space (XRAM).
Addresses in XRAM area accessed using the external move (MOVX) instructions.
Note:
The 16-bit MOVX write instruction is also used for writing and erasing the flash memory. More details may be found in the flash
memory section.
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