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What is
<A>
Assembly
A
bl Language
L
Instructions for a P written in the form of mnemonics
Confusingly also referred to as assembler
assembler , as in assembler
assembler
code, or to program in assembler
Assembler
A program that translates from an assembly language to machine
instructions
A Cross
C
A
Assembler
bl is
i a program that
th t runs on one type
t
off processor
(e.g. x86) and produces machine instructions for another type (PIC)
Assemble
Translate to machine instructions (an assembly language is
assembled, a HLL is compiled or interpreted)
Assembly
The process of translation
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What is an Assembler?
Assembler ?
At least: a translator from mnemonics to binary instructions
ADLW
hAA 00001111 10101010
Invariably,
I
i bl an assembler:
bl
Has a set of directives that control assembler processing
Calculates relative addresses from instruction labels
0000000B
000000
000000
000000 0E0A
000002 6
00000
6E0B
0
000004 EF00 F000
0001FE
0001FE EF00 F000
MANUAL
MANUAL.ASM
ASM
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18:33:38
PAGE
00001
00002
00003
00004
00005
00006
00007
00008
00009
00010
00011
00012
00013
00014
00015
0x0A
Dest
est
Start
org
goto
t
0x01FE
Start
St
t
end
MANUAL
MANUAL.ASM
ASM
SYMBOL TABLE
LABEL
18:33:38
PAGE
VALUE
Dest
Start
__18F452
18F452
MEMORY
0000 :
01C0 :
0200 :
3-23-2003
0000000B
00000000
00000001
All ot
other
e memory
e o y b
blocks
oc s u
unused.
used.
Program Memory Bytes Used:
12
Program Memory Bytes Free: 32756
Errors
:
Warnings :
Messages
g
:
0
0 reported,
0 reported,
p
0 suppressed
0 suppressed
pp
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What is
<L>
Linker
Program that translates one or more relocatable object
modules into executable instructions with absolute
addresses
Library
Lib
Collection of relocatable object modules
Librarian
Program that creates and manages a library
Add, remove, replace, list object modules
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Workflow Librarian
Librarian MPLIB can be used
to form libraries of
relocatable
l
bl object
bj
code.
d
For example:
clib.lib
p18f452.lib
myLib.lib
Free (p
(part of MPLAB IDE))
Assembler Syntax
Labels
Mnemonics
Operands
Comments
PIR1, ADIF
Mnemonics
Must not start in column 1
Must be separated from label(s) by colon (:) or whitespace
Operands
Must be separated from mnemonics by whitespace
Multiple operands must be separated by a comma (,)
Comments
Can start anywhere
Everything from a semicolon (;) to the end-of-line is a comment
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Hexadecimal:
Decimal
Octal:
Bi
Binary:
HA3 or 0xA3
D163
O243
B10100011
10100011
D
Default
f lt radix
di is
i Hexadecimal
H
d i l
There is no floating point type
ASCII Character: C or AC
ASCII String:
A
A String
String
Note! A string is not Null-terminated unless you add the terminator!
Assembler Directives
Directives =
Instructions in the source code that tell the
assembler how to assemble a source file
Assembler Directives
Assembler directives are placed in the assembly
language source file, and tell the assembler how to
assemble the source.
They are not active at run time
There are five types of assembler directives, for:
Assembler Control
Conditional Assembly
Data Definition
Macro Definition
Object
j
File Control
HEIGHT
DEPTH
equ
equ
D17
HEIGHT * 2
Length
Area
g
Length
set
set
set
2
HEIGHT * Length
Length
g
+ 1
expr is a number
See examples in P18452.INC
P18452 INC
See
org
g
0x000008
goto HighISR
; HighISR replaced by address
HighISR:
; High priority ISR goes here
RETFIE
#define
MAX_INT
#define
DEBUG
D65535
#ifdef DEBUG
constant BuffLen
variable RecLen
#else
constant BuffLen
variable RecLen
#endif
= 8
= 4
= D512
= D64
#undefine DEBUG
p
inserts a number of blank lines
space
into the listing file
page inserts a new page character
g file
into the listing
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Both
B th print
i t user-defined
d fi d messages
The low,
low high and upper Operators
LOW: Return the low byte (bits <7:0>)
of a multi-byte value
HIGH: Return the high byte (bits <15:8>)
of a multi-byte value
pp byte
y ((bits <21:16>))
UPPER: Return the upper
of a multi-byte value
table:
data Im a
d t b
data
beatles
tl
data eater
movlw
l
movwf
movlw
movwf
f
movlw
movwf
UPPER t
table
bl
TBLPTRU
HIGH table
TBLPTRH
LOW table
TBLPTRL
banksel label
#endif
ENDIF:
if endif
ENDW:
while endw
ENDM:
macro endm
ENDC:
dw D
D350
350
aString:
db Hello Room!
aString:
da
rubric
aNullTerminatedString:
da
Null terminated, 0
squares:
dt
0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36
data
C
data
Sharp
Numbers:
data
1, 2, 3
; one character
; string
; some numbers
fill
fill
0x5555
0x5555, D10
(goto 0), NEXT_BLOCK-$
<mem_units>
; Absolute code
org
0x2000
res
0x20
; 32 bytes
; Relocatable code
Globals:
udata
temp
res
1
time
res
2 ; 2 bytes
processor
__MAXRAM
18F452
H'FFF
; Unimplemented banks
__BADRAM
H'600'-H'F7F
; Unimplemented SFRs
__BADRAM
H'F85'-H'F88'
__BADRAM
H'F8E'-H'F91'
8
91
__BADRAM
H'F97'-H'F9C'
__BADRAM
H'FA3'-H'FA5'
__BADRAM
H'FAA'
__BADRAM
H'FB4'-H'FB9
Macro Definitions
MACRO: Declare a Macro Definition
ENDM: End a Macro Definition
<label> macro [<arg>,...,<arg>]
<statements>
endm
LOCAL: Declare Local Macro Variable
local <label> [,<label>]
len
size
equ 10
equ 20
m_buffer:
macro
local
len
set
label res
l
len
set
t
endm
; global
size
len,
len label
size
; local len
len
l
len - size
i
Macro Language
Macros
Allow functions with arguments
Macro processor can function like a simple compiler
In reality
reality, macro processor is just doing
substitutions macro expansion
Macro Syntax
Syntax
S t is
i
<label> macro [<arg1>, <arg2>, ..., <argn>]
<statements>
endm
; ends macro definition
<label> is the name of the macro
it will p
produce (expand
( p
to):
)
movlw
subwf
btfsc
goto
maxSwitch
switchVal, w
status, carry
switchOn
Relocatable Object
j
Files
Specify
p
y the segment
g
((or section)) for p
placement of
each part of the linker output, rather than absolute
addresses
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initialisedGlobals:
idata
LimitL: dw 0
LimitH: dw D300
Gain:
dw D5
Flags
db 0
String db Y-Axis,0
udata
udata_acs
udata_ovr
udata_shr
idata
Each Un-initialised
udata
udata_s
shr s
shared
a ed data p
placed
aced in RAM tthat
at is
s not
ot
banked, or can be accessed in all banks
Not used in PIC18
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User code must copy each from to the corresponding to at runtime but before the main code executes
time,
See the examples in IDATA.ASM
IDATA ASM and c18i.c
c18i c
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000000
000001
000000
000001
000002
000000
000001
00020
00021
00022
00023
000
3
00024
00025
00026
00027
00028
00029
00030
00031
00032
00033
00034
HistoryVector
IDATA
DB
0
InputGain
OutputGain
UDATA
U
RES
1
RES
1
Overlay1
Templ
Temp2
Temp3
UDATA_OVR
RES
1
RES
1
RES
1
Overlay2
Hempl
Hemp2
UDATA_OVR
UDATA OVR
RES
1
RES
1
Segment type
MPLINK Inputs
.o
Relocatable object
j
files
.lib Collections of relocatable object files
Usually grouped in a modular fashion
Only used modules are linked into the executable
.lkr
lk Linker
Li k script
i t files
fil tell
t ll the
th linker
li k
What files to link
Range of valid memory addresses for a particular target
MPLINK Outputs
.cof Intermediate COFF (Common Object File
Format) file
Contains symbolic debug information
Search
path
Names of different
CODE segments
// CODEPAGE defined memory regions are in Program Memory, and are used for
// program code, constants (including constant strings), and the initial values
// of initialised variables.
CODE
#pragma
CODEPAGE
CODEPAGE
CODEPAGE
CODEPAGE
code CODEPAGE
CODEPAGE
CODEPAGE
NAME=vectors
NAME=page
NAME=debug
NAME=idlocs
NAME=config
NAME=devid
NAME=eedata
START=0x000000
START=0x00002A
START=0x007DC0
START=0x200000
START=0x300000
START=0x3FFFFE
START=0xF00000
END=0x000029
END=0x007DBF
END=0x007FFF
END=0x200007
END=0x30000D
END=0x3FFFFF
END=0xF000FF
PROTECTED
PROTECTED
PROTECTED
PROTECTED
PROTECTED
PROTECTED
Only usable
by code that
requests it
Access RAM
// ACCESSBANK defined memory regions in Access RAM, used for data (variables).
// DATABANK defined memory regions in Banked RAM, used for data (variables).
// The names gp
gpr0,
, g
grp1,
p , etc here are **arbitrary**.
y
ACCESSBANK NAME=accessram START=0x000
END=0x07F
DATABANK
NAME=gpr0
START=0x080
END=0x0FF
DATABANK
NAME=gpr1
START=0x100
END=0x1FF
DATABANK
NAME=gpr2
START=0x200
END=0x2FF
DATABANK
NAME=gpr3
START=0x300
END=0x3FF
DATABANK
NAME=gpr4
START=0x400
END=0x4FF
DATABANK
NAME=gpr5
START=0x500
END=0x5F3
DATABANK
NAME=dbgspr
START=0x5F4
END=0x5FF
PROTECTED
ACCESSBANK NAME=accesssfr START=0xF80
END=0xFFF
PROTECTED
//
//
//
//
//
//
Logical sections specify which of the memory regions defined above should
be used for a portion of relocatable code generated from a named section in
the
h source code.
d
Each
h SECTION places
l
a named
d section
i
i
into a d
defined
fi d memory
region. Code sections are named using (for example) a
xxxx CODE
directive in an assembly language source file OR
#pragma code
directive in a C source file.
SECTION
NAME=CONFIG
ROM=config
Linker Usage
See MPLINK Users Manual for
Much more detail
Many examples
q:
c:
t:
d:
r:
x:
Quiet mode
Create Library with Member[s]
List table showing Library members
Delete Member[s] from Library
Add/replace Member[s] in Library
Extract Member[s]
[ ] from Library
y