Kane Industries C6713CPU - Manual (Page 22)

H ARDWARE R EFERENCE G UIDE
MICRO - LINE
®
C6713CPU
Date : 28 November 2005
Doc. no. : C6713CPU_HRG
Iss./Rev : 1.1
Page : 22
3.7 Endianness
When data is transferred between the C6713CPU board and external hardware over the micro-
line
® connector it is important to know how data is stored in memory.
The C6713CPU is configured for little endian operation. This means, less significant bytes are
stored first (at lower addresses).
8 bit write to memory
Data to be stored
C-code result in memory
12 *(char *)0x8000000 = 0x12 8000 0000h 12
16 bit write to memory
Data to be stored
C-code result in memory
12 34 *(short *)0x8000000 = 0x1234 8000 0000h 34
8000 0001h 12
32 bit write to memory
Data to be stored
C-code result in memory
12 34 56 78 *(int *)0x8000000 = 0x12345678 8000 0000h 78
8000 0001h 56
8000 0002h 34
8000 0003h 12
Figure 5: Data representation in memory in little endian configuration