Rainbow Electronics ATmega8HVD - Manual (Page 10)

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8052B–AVR–09/08
ATmega4HVD/8HVD
Figure 6-3. The X-, Y-, and Z-registers
In the different addressing modes these address registers have functions as fixed displace-
ment, automatic increment, and automatic decrement (see the instruction set reference for
details).
6.5 Stack Pointer
The Stack is mainly used for storing temporary data, for storing local variables and for storing
return addresses after interrupts and subroutine calls. The Stack Pointer Register always
points to the top of the Stack. Note that the Stack is implemented as growing from higher
memory locations to lower memory locations. This implies that a Stack PUSH command
decreases the Stack Pointer.
The Stack Pointer points to the data SRAM Stack area where the Subroutine and Interrupt
Stacks are located. This Stack space in the data SRAM must be defined by the program
before any subroutine calls are executed or interrupts are enabled. The Stack Pointer must be
set to point above 0x100. The Stack Pointer is decremented by one when data is pushed onto
the Stack with the PUSH instruction, and it is decremented by two when the return address is
pushed onto the Stack with subroutine call or interrupt. The Stack Pointer is incremented by
one when data is popped from the Stack with the POP instruction, and it is incremented by two
when data is popped from the Stack with return from subroutine RET or return from interrupt
RETI.
The AVR Stack Pointer is implemented as two 8-bit registers in the I/O space. The number of
bits actually used is implementation dependent. Note that the data space in some implementa-
tions of the AVR architecture is so small that only SPL is needed. In this case, the SPH
Register will not be present.
6.5.1 SPH and SPL – Stack pointer High and Low Register
15 XH XL 0
X-register 7 0 7 0
R27 (0x1B) R26 (0x1A)
15 YH YL 0
Y-register 7 0 7 0
R29 (0x1D) R28 (0x1C)
15 ZH ZL 0
Z-register 7 0 7 0
R31 (0x1F) R30 (0x1E)
Bit 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8
SP15 SP14 SP13 SP12 SP11 SP10 SP9 SP8 SPH
SP7 SP6 SP5 SP4 SP3 SP2 SP1 SP0 SPL
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Read/Write R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W
R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W R/W
Initial Value 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1