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11.5.1 SPH and SPL - Stack Pointer High and Stack Pointer Low Register
Bit
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
0x3E
SP15
SP14
SP13
SP12
SP11
SP10
SP9
SP8
SPH
0x3D
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
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
11.6 Instruction Execution Timing
This section describes the general access timing concepts for instruction execution. The AVR CPU is
driven by the CPU clock clk
CPU
, directly generated from the selected clock source for the chip. No internal
clock division is used.
The following figure shows the parallel instruction fetches and instruction executions enabled by the
Harvard architecture and the fast-access Register File concept. This is the basic pipelining concept to
obtain up to 1 MIPS per MHz with the corresponding unique results for functions per cost, functions per
clocks, and functions per power-unit.
Figure 11-4. The Parallel Instruction Fetches and Instruction Executions
clk
1st Instruction Fetch
1st Instruction Execute
2nd Instruction Fetch
2nd Instruction Execute
3rd Instruction Fetch
3rd Instruction Execute
4th Instruction Fetch
T1 T2 T3 T4
CPU
The next figure shows the internal timing concept for the Register File. In a single clock cycle an ALU
operation using two register operands is executed, and the result is stored back to the destination
register.
Figure 11-5. Single Cycle ALU Operation
Total Execution Time
Register Operands Fetch
ALU Operation Execute
Result Write Back
T1 T2 T3 T4
clk
CPU
AVR 8-Bit Microcontroller
AVR CPU Core
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