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Friends, I am writing a program that is more than 2K. I am using the PIC16C67 (8K) and have never had a program more than 2K. The problem is that I assembled it in MPLAB and it says: Crossing page boundary -- ensure page bits are set. This is new to me. So how do I go about doing this? Do I set the memory to bank1 where the code first indicates this message? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks alot. Best regards, Steven Steven Kosmerchock Engineering Technician/Student CELWAVE Phoenix Arizona USA Email: spam_OUTsteve.kosmerchockTakeThisOuTcelwave.com http://www.geocities.com/researchtriangle/lab/6584

Steven Kosmerchock wrote: > > Friends, > I am writing a program that is more than 2K. I am using It's quite easy to understand Page Boundaries. GOTO and CALL instructions as with all others in this chip are 14 bits wide. 3 are for the instruction, so it can only supply another 11 bits for an address. Binary 00000000000 - 11111111111 = 0 - 2047 or 2K ROM space. In order to address more than this 2K instruction limit, there has to be a mechanism available to add extra bits to the instruction. The mechanism in the PIC is to use bits from the PCLATH register. PCLATH bits <4:3> are used for this purpose and become the MSB's of the GOTO/CALL instructions address. That way the total address becomes 13 bit, ie. able to address 8K of ROM. If you do simple binary arithmetic on this you will see why it works. PCLATH <4:3> + Instruction Address (00000000000 - 11111111111) 0 0 0 - 2047 ROM Page 0 0 1 2048 - 4095 ROM Page 1 1 0 4096 - 6143 ROM Page 2 1 1 6142 - 8191 ROM Page 3 It is upto you to determine the target address of your CALL GOTO instructions. If this address is outside the 2K boundary limits as mentioned above, then you will need to set the correct PCLATH bits before the GOTO/CALL instruction. You must keep track of all GOTO/CALL addresses throughout your program when it spills over the 1st 2K boundary. If the PCLATH is not set correctly then errors in your software will occur. Try this in a simulator org 0h clrf PCLATH goto Page1 here goto here ; this is where you will stay. org 800h nop nop Page1 goto Page1 ; the program will not get here. If you bsf PCLATH,3 then the program will work as expected. The PCLATH value does not change after a RETURN instruction, but the PC will point to the instruction following the CALL. This is because the stack holds the entire 13 bit address, so it can return from anywhere in ROM. -- Best regards Tony Multimedia 16F84 Beginners PIC Tools. ** NEW PicNPro Programmer and Port Interface ** http://www.picnpoke.com Email .....picnpokeKILLspam@spam@cdi.com.au