Do MOVI, MOVS, MOVD work on DIRA/OUTA?

Bill Henning

Orthogonality would say that they should work...

If they do work, they would be a great alternative for some selective I/O!

I'd try it, but I am hip deep in the PropellerBasic code generator at the moment.

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Mike Green

MOVI, MOVS, and MOVD should work fine on DIRA and OUTA (as destinations). The problem you run into is putting read-only register addresses in the destination field (like PAR, CNT, and INA).

Bill Henning

Thanks Mike,

I was hoping that was the case! It will allow me (later) to make the code for my XMM much more readable, using MOVI to control latching the page address, and setting the read & write modes.

Mike Green said...
MOVI, MOVS, and MOVD should work fine on DIRA and OUTA (as destinations). The problem you run into is putting read-only register addresses in the destination field (like PAR, CNT, and INA).

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David B

I had my prof dev board out on the desk, so I ran a test and used both movs and movd on both dira and outa to turn on and off a couple of the on-board LEDs, and they work.

movs dira, #$F
movs outa, #$F

movd dira, #3
movd outa, #3

movd (and I assume movi also) does both a shift and place of the values, which could be useful for placing a byte-sized group of data values onto the IO pins.

Bill Henning

Thanks! I'd have tested but I am hip deep in writing C code (PropellerBasic)

David B said...
I had my prof dev board out on the desk, so I ran a test and used both movs and movd on both dira and outa to turn on and off a couple of the on-board LEDs, and they work.

movs dira, #$F
movs outa, #$F

movd dira, #3
movd outa, #3

movd (and I assume movi also) does both a shift and place of the values, which could be useful for placing a byte-sized group of data values onto the IO pins.

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MagIO2

Yep ... that's what I do in my LCD driver. Using port bits 0 to 7 and write data directly to outa, which is easier than masking - which is needed if you don't want to affect control-signals as WR or CS. But please remember, it's not byte size, it's 9 bit that you write. So, none of your control-signals should be attached to port bit 8.