Labsheet

University of Jordan
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Department of Computer Engineering
Embedded Systems Laboratory 0907334

MPLAB and Instruction Set Analysis 2

Name: Abed el-Rahman Khaled Hamed

Student ID: 0164872

Section (Day/Time): Thusrday---1:00 – 4:00

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 COMPUTER NAME:
UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LABORATORY CPE0907334
Labsheet 2: Instruction Set Analysis 2 & Modular Programming
Techniques
Name: Abed el-Rahman Khaled Hamed Student ID: 0164872
Section: 4
Pre-lab) Part 1: Starting up with instructions
Answer the following short questions:

A) Write the instructions needed to check if the value found in REGA equal to 10.
Movlw D’10’
Subwf REGA,0
Btfss STATUS,Z

B) Write the instructions needed to check if the value found in REGA equal to zero.
Mov REGA,F
Btfss STATUS,Z

(Pre-lab) Part 2: Code Analysis Skills

Answer the following questions regarding Program3 of the experiment @ PAGE 5 and 6:
Each question is independent from the others.

1. What will the results of the program 3 be when we substitute the instruction @ line 23
“decfsz counter, F ” with decfsz counter, W ?
Infinite Loop

2. Assuming that the PIC runs at an external oscillator speed of 4 MHz? What is the time spent
in executing the program 3.asm code?
29 microsecond

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(Pre-lab) Part 3: Code Writing Skills
Modify Program1.asm code of the experiment to add this case:
If testNum has the decimal value 10, Result will have the ASCII value ‘E’

include "p16F84A.inc"
cblock 0x25
testNum
Result
endc
org 0x00
Main
movf testNum, W
sublw D'10' ;10d - testNum
btfsc STATUS,Z
goto Equal
btfss STATUS, C
goto Greater ;C = 0, that's B = 1, then testNum > 10
goto Smaller ;C = 1, that's B = 0, then testNum < 10
Greater
movlw A'G'
movwf Result
goto Finish
Smaller
movlw A'S'
movwf Result
Goto Finish

Equal
movlw A'E'
Movwf Result

Finish
nop
end

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Part4: Code Analysis Skills

Read and simulate the given code Labsheet2.asm and answer the questions which follow:

 Preparing for simulation

 Go to View Menu -> Watch.
 Then from the drop out menu choose the registers you want to watch during simulation
and click ADD Symbols for each one (Num, Num_7, Num_49).
 Select Debugger ->Select Tool ->MPLAB SIM.
 Simulate the program.

1. What will be stored in the following Registers when Num has the following values:

Value of Num_7 after Value of Num_49 after

Num
Mul7 subroutine call in Main Mul49 subroutine call in Main

0x02 0x0E 0x62

0x05 0x23 0xF5

2. What is the total number of instructions inside the Mul49 subroutine?

6 instructions

3. Where does Mul7 subroutine expect to find its input, where does it store its output?
Input: Working

Output: Num_7

4. What is the value at the top of stack when the Mul49 subroutine call instruction executed is?
0004

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Part 5: Code Writing Skills

In MPLAB, Write a program which converts a number from unpacked BCD format saved in three
registers to one decimal number, assuming that registers names are BCDH, BCDM and BCDL.
BCDH (High Digit of the decimal number) is at location 0x21, BCDM (Mid Digit of the decimal
number) is at location 0x22, BCDL (Low Digit of the decimal number) is at location 0x23, and Result
is at location 0x40, also assume that all BCD numbers are in the valid range of 0 – 9.

(Example: BCDH: 2 BCDM: 4 BCDL: 3 Result:’243’d)

Hint: (3) + (4 x10) + (2 x 100) =243, Use modular programming techniques in your code.

You need to simulate your code:

 Preparing for simulation
 Go to View Menu -> Watch.
 Then from the drop down menu choose the following registers you want to watch during
simulation and click ADD Symbols for each one (BCDH, BCDM, BCDL and Result).
 Select Debugger ->Select Tool ->MPLAB SIM.
 From the watch window, give the registers BCDH, BCDM and BCDL the following values 2, 4
and 7.
 Simulate the program.

Ask your engineer to check the run.