DSPIC30F2012 Microchip Technology Inc., DSPIC30F2012 Datasheet - Page 19

• Manufacturer Part Number: DSPIC30F2012
• Description: Dspic30f2011/2012/3012/3013 High-performance Digital Signal Controllers
• Manufacturer: Microchip Technology Inc.

2.0
This section is an overview of the CPU architecture of
the dsPIC30F. The core has a 24-bit instruction word.
The Program Counter (PC) is 23 bits wide with the
Least
Section 3.1 “Program Address Space”). The Most
Significant bit (MSb) is ignored during normal program
execution, except for certain specialized instructions.
Thus, the PC can address up to 4M instruction words
of user program space. An instruction prefetch mecha-
nism helps maintain throughput. Program loop con-
structs, free from loop count management overhead,
are supported using the DO and REPEAT instructions,
both of which are interruptible at any point.
2.1
The working register array consists of 16 x 16-bit regis-
ters, each of which can act as data, address or offset
registers. One working register (W15) operates as a
Software Stack Pointer for interrupts and calls.
The data space is 64 Kbytes (32K words) and is split
into two blocks, referred to as X and Y data memory.
Each block has its own independent Address Genera-
tion Unit (AGU). Most instructions operate solely
through the X memory, AGU, which provides the
appearance of a single unified data space. The
Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) class of dual source DSP
instructions operate through both the X and Y AGUs,
splitting the data address space into two parts (see
Section 3.2 “Data Address Space”). The X and Y
data space boundary is device specific and cannot be
altered by the user. Each data word consists of 2 bytes
and most instructions can address data either as words
or bytes.
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Note: This data sheet summarizes features of this group
of dsPIC30F devices and is not intended to be a complete
reference source. For more information on the CPU,
peripherals, register descriptions and general device
functionality, refer to the “dsPIC30F Family Reference
Manual” (DS70046). For more information on the device
instruction set and programming, refer to the “dsPIC30F/
33F Programmer’s Reference Manual” (DS70157).
Significant
CPU ARCHITECTURE
OVERVIEW
Core Overview
bit
(LSb)
always clear (see
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Two ways to access data in program memory are:
• The upper 32 Kbytes of data space memory can
• Linear indirect access of 32K word pages within
Overhead-free circular buffers (Modulo Addressing)
are supported in both X and Y address spaces. This is
primarily intended to remove the loop overhead for
DSP algorithms.
The X AGU also supports Bit-Reversed Addressing on
destination effective addresses to greatly simplify input
or output data reordering for radix-2 FFT algorithms.
Refer to Section 4.0 “Address Generator Units” for
details on Modulo and Bit-Reversed Addressing.
The core supports Inherent (no operand), Relative,
Literal, Memory Direct, Register Direct, Register
Indirect, Register Offset and Literal Offset Addressing
modes. Instructions are associated with pre-defined
addressing modes, depending upon their functional
requirements.
For most instructions, the core is capable of executing
a data (or program data) memory read, a working reg-
ister (data) read, a data memory write and a program
(instruction) memory read per instruction cycle. As a
result, 3 operand instructions are supported, allowing
C = A+B operations to be executed in a single cycle.
A DSP engine has been included to significantly
enhance the core arithmetic capability and throughput.
It features a high-speed 17-bit by 17-bit multiplier, a
40-bit ALU, two 40-bit saturating accumulators and a
40-bit bidirectional barrel shifter. Data in the accumula-
tor or any working register can be shifted up to 15 bits
right, or 16 bits left in a single cycle. The DSP instruc-
tions operate seamlessly with all other instructions and
have been designed for optimal real-time performance.
The MAC class of instructions can concurrently fetch
two data operands from memory while multiplying two
W registers. To enable this concurrent fetching of data
operands, the data space has been split for these
instructions and linear is for all others. This has been
achieved in a transparent and flexible manner, by ded-
icating certain working registers to each address space
for the MAC class of instructions.
be mapped into the lower half (user space) of
program space at any 16K program word bound-
ary, defined by the 8-bit Program Space Visibility
Page (PSVPAG) register. Thus any instruction
can access program space as if it were data
space, with a limitation that the access requires
an additional cycle. Only the lower 16 bits of each
instruction word can be accessed using this
method.
program space is also possible using any working
register, via table read and write instructions.
Table read and write instructions can be used to
access all 24 bits of an instruction word.
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