38C3 Group User’s Manual
HARDWARE
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FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
The 38C3 group uses the standard 740 Family instruction set. Refer
to the table of 740 Family addressing modes and machine instruc-
tions or the 740 Family Software Manual for details on the instruction
set.
Machine-resident 740 Family instructions are as follows:
The FST and SLW instructions cannot be used.
The STP, WIT, MUL, and DIV instructions can be used.
[Accumulator (A)]
The accumulator is an 8-bit register. Data operations such as data
transfer, etc., are executed mainly through the accumulator.
[Index Register X (X)]
The index register X is an 8-bit register. In the index addressing modes,
the value of the OPERAND is added to the contents of register X and
specifies the real address.
[Index Register Y (Y)]
The index register Y is an 8-bit register. In partial instruction, the
value of the OPERAND is added to the contents of register Y and
specifies the real address.
[Stack Pointer (S)]
The stack pointer is an 8-bit register used during subroutine calls
and interrupts. This register indicates start address of stored area
(stack) for storing registers during subroutine calls and interrupts.
The low-order 8 bits of the stack address are determined by the con-
tents of the stack pointer. The high-order 8 bits of the stack address
are determined by the stack page selection bit. If the stack page
selection bit is “0” , the high-order 8 bits becomes “0016”. If the stack
page selection bit is “1”, the high-order 8 bits becomes “0116”.
The operations of pushing register contents onto the stack and pop-
ping them from the stack are shown in Figure 6.
Store registers other than those described in Figure 6 with program
when the user needs them during interrupts or subroutine calls.
[Program Counter (PC)]
The program counter is a 16-bit counter consisting of two 8-bit regis-
ters PCH and PCL. It is used to indicate the address of the next in-
struction to be executed.
Fig. 5 740 Family CPU register structure
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
A
Accumulator
b7
b0
b7
b15
b0
b7
b0
X
Index register X
Y
Index register Y
S
Stack pointer
PCL
Program counter
PCH
N V T B D I Z C
Processor status register (PS)
Carry flag
Zero flag
Interrupt disable flag
Decimal mode flag
Break flag
Index X mode flag
Overflow flag
Negative flag