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clock cycles. The CPU is halted during the entire Page Write operation if the NRWW section is
addressed.

• Bit 1 – PGERS: Page Erase

If this bit is written to one at the same time as SPMEN, the next SPM instruction within four clock
cycles executes Page Erase. The page address is taken from the high part of the Z-pointer. The
data in R1 and R0 are ignored. The PGERS bit will auto-clear upon completion of a Page Erase,
or if no SPM instruction is executed within four clock cycles. The CPU is halted during the entire
Page Write operation if the NRWW section is addressed.

• Bit 0 – SPMEN: Self Programming Enable

This bit enables the SPM instruction for the next four clock cycles. If written to one together with
either RWWSRE, BLBSET, PGWRT or PGERS, the following SPM instruction will have a spe-
cial meaning, see description above. If only SPMEN is written, the following SPM instruction will
store the value in R1:R0 in the temporary page buffer addressed by the Z-pointer. The LSB of
the Z-pointer is ignored. The SPMEN bit will auto-clear upon completion of an SPM instruction,
or if no SPM instruction is executed within four clock cycles. During Page Erase and Page Write,
the SPMEN bit remains high until the operation is completed.

Writing any other combination than “10001”, “01001”, “00101”, “00011” or “00001” in the lower
five bits will have no effect.

23.6

Addressing the Flash During Self-Programming

The Z-pointer is used to address the SPM commands.

Since the Flash is organized in pages (see

Table 24-12 on page 295

), the Program Counter can

be treated as having two different sections. One section, consisting of the least significant bits, is
addressing the words within a page, while the most significant bits are addressing the pages.
This is1 shown in

Figure 23-3

. Note that the Page Erase and Page Write operations are

addressed independently. Therefore it is of major importance that the Boot Loader software
addresses the same page in both the Page Erase and Page Write operation. Once a program-
ming operation is initiated, the address is latched and the Z-pointer can be used for other
operations.

The only SPM operation that does not use the Z-pointer is Setting the Boot Loader Lock bits.
The content of the Z-pointer is ignored and will have no effect on the operation. The LPM
instruction does also use the Z-pointer to store the address. Since this instruction addresses the
Flash byte-by-byte, also the LSB (bit Z0) of the Z-pointer is used.

Bit

15

14

13

12

11

10

9

8

ZH (R31)

Z15

Z14

Z13

Z12

Z11

Z10

Z9

Z8

ZL (R30)

Z7

Z6

Z5

Z4

Z3

Z2

Z1

Z0

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

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