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ATmega128

Program flow is provided by conditional and unconditional jump and call instructions, able to

directly address the whole address space. Most AVR instructions have a single 16-bit word for-

mat. Every program memory address contains a 16- or 32-bit instruction.

Program Flash memory space is divided in two sections, the Boot Program section and the

Application Program section. Both sections have dedicated Lock bits for write and read/write

protection. The SPM instruction that writes into the Application Flash Memory section must

reside in the Boot Program section.

During interrupts and subroutine calls, the return address Program Counter (PC) is stored on the

Stack. The Stack is effectively allocated in the general data SRAM, and consequently the stack

size is only limited by the total SRAM size and the usage of the SRAM. All user programs must

initialize the SP in the reset routine (before subroutines or interrupts are executed). The Stack

Pointer – SP – is read/write accessible in the I/O space. The data SRAM can easily be accessed

through the five different addressing modes supported in the AVR architecture.

The memory spaces in the AVR architecture are all linear and regular memory maps.

A flexible interrupt module has its control registers in the I/O space with an additional global

interrupt enable bit in the Status Register. All interrupts have a separate interrupt vector in the

interrupt vector table. The interrupts have priority in accordance with their interrupt vector posi-

tion. The lower the interrupt vector address, the higher the priority.

The I/O memory space contains 64 addresses which can be accessed directly, or as the Data

Space locations following those of the Register file, $20 - $5F. In addition, the ATmega128 has

Extended I/O space from $60 - $FF in SRAM where only the ST/STS/STD and LD/LDS/LDD

instructions can be used.

ALU – Arithmetic

Logic Unit

The high-performance AVR ALU operates in direct connection with all the 32 general purpose

working registers. Within a single clock cycle, arithmetic operations between general purpose

registers or between a register and an immediate are executed. The ALU operations are divided

into three main categories – arithmetic, logical, and bit-functions. Some implementations of the

architecture also provide a powerful multiplier supporting both signed/unsigned multiplication

and fractional format. See the “Instruction Set” section for a detailed description.

Status Register

The Status Register contains information about the result of the most recently executed arithme-

tic instruction. This information can be used for altering program flow in order to perform

conditional operations. Note that the Status Register is updated after all ALU operations, as

specified in the Instruction Set Reference. This will in many cases remove the need for using the

dedicated compare instructions, resulting in faster and more compact code.

The status register is not automatically stored when entering an interrupt routine and restored

when returning from an interrupt. This must be handled by software.

The AVR status Register – SREG – is defined as:

Bit

765

432

10

I

T

H

S

V

N

Z

C

SREG

Read/Write

R/W

R/W

R/W

R/W

R/W

R/W

R/W

R/W

Initial Value

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0