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Note: 1. “1” means unprogrammed, “0” means programmed
26.7 Addressing the Flash during Self-Programming
The Z-pointer is used to address the SPM commands.
Since the Flash is organized in pages (see Table 26-5 on page 269), the Program Counter can be treated as hav-
ing two different sections. One section, consisting of the least significant bits, is addressing the words within a
page, while the most significant bits are addressing the pages. This is shown in Figure 25-3. Note that the Page
Erase and Page Write operations are addressed independently. Therefore it is of major importance that the Boot
Loader software addresses the same page in both the Page Erase and Page Write operation. Once a program-
ming operation is initiated, the address is latched and the Z-pointer can be used for other operations.
The only SPM operation that does not use the Z-pointer is Setting the Boot Loader Lock bits. The content of the Z-
pointer is ignored and will have no effect on the operation. The LPM instruction does also use the Z pointer to store
the address. Since this instruction addresses the Flash byte by byte, also the LSB (bit Z0) of the Z-pointer is used.
Figure 26-3. Addressing the Flash during SPM
(1)
Notes: 1. The different variables used in Figure 25-3 are listed in Table 25-8 on page 263.
2. PCPAGE and PCWORD are listed in “Page Size” on page 269.
Table 26-4. Boot Reset Fuse
(1)
BOOTRST Reset Address
1 Reset Vector = Application reset (address $0000)
0 Reset Vector = Boot Loader reset (see Table 25-6 on page 263)
Bit 151413121110 9 8
ZH (R31) Z15 Z14 Z13 Z12 Z11 Z10 Z9 Z8
ZL (R30) Z7Z6Z5Z4Z3Z2Z1Z0
76543210
PROGRAM MEMORY
0115
Z - REGISTER
BIT
0
ZPAGEMSB
WORD ADDRESS
WITHIN A PAGE
PAGE ADDRESS
WITHIN THE FLASH
ZPCMSB
INSTRUCTION WORD
PAGE
PCWORD[PAGEMSB:0]:
00
01
02
PAGEEND
PAGE
PCWORDPCPAGE
PCMSB
PAGEMSB
PROGRAM
COUNTER