13.1 Addressing modes for ti tms320c54x

Microprocessors provide a number of ways to specify the location of data to be used in calculations. For example, one of thedata values to be used in an add instruction may be encoded as part of that instruction's opcode , the raw machine language produced by the assembler as it parses yourassembly language program. This is known as immediate addressing . Alternatively, perhaps the opcode will instead contain a memory address which holds the data( direct addressing ). More commonly, the instruction will specify that an auxiliary register holds the memory addresswhich in turn holds the data ( indirect addressing ). The processor knows which addressing mode is being used byexamining special bit fields in the instruction opcode.

Knowing the basic addressing modes of your microprocessor is important because they map directly into assembly languagesyntax. Many annoying and sometimes hard-to-find bugs are caused by inadvertently using the wrong addressing mode in aninstruction. Also, in any assembly language, the need to use a particular addressing mode often dictates which instruction onepicks for a given task.

Chapter five, Data Addressing , in the CPU and Peripherals reference contains extended descriptions of most of the addressing modes described below.

Accumulators: src, dst

Whenever the abbreviations src or dst are used in the assembly language syntax description for an instruction, it means that only theaccumulators A and B may be used for that particular operand. These are seen everywhere, but twoclassic examples are ld , which always loads data into an accumulator from somewhere else, and sth/stl , which always store data from an accumulator to somewhere else.

Examples:

Memory-mapped registers: mmr, mmrx, mmry

Many of the TMS320C54x registers are memory-mapped, meaning that they occupy real addresses at the low end of data memoryspace. The most commonly used of these are the auxiliary registers AR0 through AR7 . Whenever the abbreviation MMR is used in the assembly language syntax description for an instruction, it means thatany memory-mapped register may be used for that particular operand. Only eight instructions use memory-mapped registeraddressing: ldm , mvdm , mvmd , mvmm , popm , pshm , stlm , and stm . With mvmm , since the instruction accepts two memory-mapped register operands, MMRx and MMRy , only AR0 - AR7 and SP may be used.