Post by thread:Indirect Addressing

Hi, I've been lurking for a while now but now I'm stuck and need help! I want to create a data table on-the-fly by providing the data byte and an offset from the start of the table. (i.e not a ready made table and use retlw) In case you're confused ..... I want to write a byte of data at the first location in my table. I then increment a register to point to the next location in my table. Therefore I assume that indirect addressing is the answer. I've looked at the very short program in my data book to clear a block of RAM and this seems very similar(Section on Indirect Addressing,FSR,INDF) except it says that I can't write to the INDF register. I assume that you can only clear the INDF register with clrf INDF in fact here's the program they give ..... clears RAM locations 20h -2fh movlw 0x20 movwf FSR NEXT clrf INDF incrf FSR btfss FSR,4 ;bit 4 indicates 16th byte I assume - '00010000' goto NEXT CONTINUE ...... It's probably really easy but it's got me stumped at the moment!

Neil Thomson <spam_OUTN.ThomsonTakeThisOuTFTEL.CO.UK> wrote: >I want to [create a lookup table in RAM] > .... >I've looked at the very short program in my data book to clear a block of RAM >and this seems very similar(Section on Indirect Addressing,FSR,INDF) except >it says that I can't write to the INDF register. Neil: What they mean to say is that "INDF" isn't a physical register; when you write to it, you actually write to the register pointed to by the FSR. This is exactly what you want. Any instruction that works on other registers will work on INDF. -Andy -- Andrew Warren - .....fastfwdKILLspam@spam@ix.netcom.com Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California

XYGAX wrote: > no you have to set the bank bits first ! Mind you there is an "IRP" or Indirect Register Pointer bit reserved for any time they happen to make a PIC with more than 256 bytes or RAM/ Registers. Cheers, Paul B.