3 instruction address addressing, 1 relative addressing – NEC uPD78P078 User Manual
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CHAPTER 5 CPU ARCHITECTURE
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0
PC
+
15
0
8
7
6
S
15
0
PC
α
jdisp8
When S = 0, all bits of
α
are 0.
When S = 1, all bits of
α
are 1.
PC indicates the start address
of the instruction
after the BR instruction.
...
5.3 Instruction Address Addressing
An instruction address is determined by program counter (PC) contents. The PC contents are normally incremented
(+1 for each byte) automatically according to the number of bytes of an instruction to be fetched each time another
instruction is executed. However, when a branch instruction is executed, the branch destination information is set
to the PC and branched by the following addressing. (For details of instructions, refer to 78K/0 USER’S MANUAL—
Instructions (U12326E).
5.3.1 Relative addressing
[Function]
The value obtained by adding 8-bit immediate data (displacement value: jdisp8) of an instruction code to the
start address of the following instruction is transferred to the program counter (PC) and branched. The
displacement value is treated as signed two’s complement data (–128 to +127) and bit 7 becomes a sign bit.
In other words, the range of branch in relative addressing is between –128 and +127 of the start address of the
following instruction. This function is carried out when the BR $addr16 instruction or a conditional branch
instruction is executed.
[Illustration]