Datasheet

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8493A–AVR–02/12
XMEGA C4
During interrupts or subroutine calls, the return address is automatically pushed on the stack.
The return address can be two or three bytes, depending on program memory size of the device.
For devices with 128KB or less of program memory, the return address is two bytes, and hence
the stack pointer is decremented/incremented by two. For devices with more than 128KB of pro-
gram memory, the return address is three bytes, and hence the SP is decremented/incremented
by three. The return address is popped off the stack when returning from interrupts using the
RETI instruction, and from subroutine calls using the RET instruction.
The SP is decremented by one when data are pushed on the stack with the PUSH instruction,
and incremented by one when data is popped off the stack using the POP instruction.
To prevent corruption when updating the stack pointer from software, a write to SPL will auto-
matically disable interrupts for up to four instructions or until the next I/O memory write.
After reset the stack pointer is initialized to the highest address of the SRAM. See Figure 7-2 on
page 14.
6.8 Register File
The register file consists of 32 x 8-bit general purpose working registers with single clock cycle
access time. The register file supports the following input/output schemes:
•One 8-bit output operand and one 8-bit result input
•Two 8-bit output operands and one 8-bit result input
•Two 8-bit output operands and one 16-bit result input
•One 16-bit output operand and one 16-bit result input
Six of the 32 registers can be used as three 16-bit address register pointers for data space
addressing, enabling efficient address calculations. One of these address pointers can also be
used as an address pointer for lookup tables in flash program memory.