help me ! for PCLATH

[ALEX001]

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Excuse me , my question was Confused
So let me put my question: I have a program for micro PIC16F616
MY program is 990 WORD.( less, then 2k Word)

Under what circumstances is in need of change PCLATH:
1. When I use the GOTO statement.
2. When I use the CALL command.
3. When the PCL change. For example: ADDWF PCL, F

[brad]

I haven't used Assembly with PIC's in quite a number of years - however could you give some more detail about your project?

[ALEX001]

Excuse me , my question was Confused
So let me put my question: I have a program for micro PIC16F616
MY program is 990 WORD.( less, then 2k Word)

Under what circumstances is in need of change PCLATH:
1. When I use the GOTO statement.
2. When I use the CALL command.
3. When the PCL change. For example: ADDWF PCL, F

[Garth]

I've brought quite a few products to market with PIC16's, but the last big PIC programming project was finished over two years ago so I'm getting a little rusty on that stuff and I had to look it up to make sure I'm not steering you wrong.

If you are only using page 0, you do not need to write to PCLATH (Program Counter LATch, High byte) for GOTO or CALL.

Even if you never leave page 0, when modifying PCL, you need to write to PCLATH if it might not already point to the same 256-byte page section as the intended destination.

You don't need to modify PCLATH before a RETURN or RETLW; but if later you do call a subroutine or table outside page 0, you'll want to put PCLATH back to the current page after the return so that subsequent GOTOs or CALLs intended for the same page don't go to the other page again.

If you allow interrupts when the program pointer is outside page 0 and the ISR (interrupt-service routine) might modify PCLATH, the ISR will have to save PCLATH's value first and then restore it before the RETFIE.

[ALEX001]

I've brought quite a few products to market with PIC16's, but the last big PIC programming project was finished over two years ago so I'm getting a little rusty on that stuff and I had to look it up to make sure I'm not steering you wrong.

If you are only using page 0, you do not need to write to PCLATH (Program Counter LATch, High byte) for GOTO or CALL.

Even if you never leave page 0, when modifying PCL, you need to write to PCLATH if it might not already point to the same 256-byte page section as the intended destination.

You don't need to modify PCLATH before a RETURN or RETLW; but if later you do call a subroutine or table outside page 0, you'll want to put PCLATH back to the current page after the return so that subsequent GOTOs or CALLs intended for the same page don't go to the other page again.

If you allow interrupts when the program pointer is outside page 0 and the ISR (interrupt-service routine) might modify PCLATH, the ISR will have to save PCLATH's value first and then restore it before the RETFIE.

Many thanks for your very quick reply

[brad]

Thanks for the great help there Garth.

I am incredibly rusty on my PIC16 ASM code. 2009 was the last I used it I think and even then, I had very little to do with the high side of the program counter.