Blackfin programming

Where I can find how to write assembly in Blackfin? For example,
functions, procedures, etc. The Blackfin instruction manual ONLY show
the instruction set.

Any free documents / resource available?

kathy wrote:
> Where I can find how to write assembly in Blackfin? For example,
> functions, procedures, etc. The Blackfin instruction manual ONLY show
> the instruction set.
> 
> Any free documents / resource available?

Once you know the instruction set, about the only thing left is knowing how to 
put the instructions together to do useful stuff.

Check ADI's web site for app notes containing example code.

I think they also have an assembly manual online somewhere, and that'll explain 
the assembler directives (.segment, etc).

-- 
Jim Thomas            Principal Applications Engineer  Bittware, Inc
jthomas@bittware.com  http://www.bittware.com    (603) 226-0404 x536
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kathy wrote:

> Where I can find how to write assembly in Blackfin? For example,
> functions, procedures, etc. The Blackfin instruction manual ONLY show
> the instruction set.
> 
> Any free documents / resource available?

Kathy,

My first logic designs were combinations of gates and flip-flops made
from discrete components. Later, I used ICs. Soon more complex
components became available, including counters, multiplexers, and the
like. I got good at stringing together combinations of logic devices to
accomplish what was needed. When it became feasible to use
microprocessors to do some of those jobs, assembly language was the most
practical way to program them. It was not a big step away from designing
with gates and other functions. Where before I strung ICs together, now
I cascaded op codes. The assembly language manual is a list of
available operations. Design consists of arranging them to accomplish
what is needed. Just as with a family of logic devices there are pieces
of cleverness that make construction easier, so with any processor
architecture there are clever tricks peculiar to it. Briefly, you
decide what you need to, take stock of the resources available, and do
it.

Nevertheless,  I understand your desire for examples and canned
functions. The best way to learn to write well is to read the works of
good writers. That applies to fiction as well as to programming, and to
different programming languages separately. The actual benefit from
using canned functions may be less than that from reading them and
understanding their subtleties.

Jerry
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* No computed jump? Push the address onto the stack and execute RTS.
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Jerry Avins wrote:

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> * No computed jump? Push the address onto the stack and execute RTS.

For the 6502, push (address-1) onto the stack and RTS.

I saw it once in some code and had to go look at the manual
to see why.

-- glen