PUC8

Assembler and C compiler for the PUC8 processor

Copyright 2020-2023 Wouter Caarls

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Introduction

PUC8 is a microcontroller with 8-bit registers. It is used in the ENG1448 course of PUC-Rio. This is the assembler and C compiler infrastructure for it.

Instruction set architecture

This very simple processor is a Harvard design, with 17-bit instructions and 8-bit data values. Both instruction and data memories have 256 addresses.

Registers

There are 16 registers. r14 is sp; r15 is pc. The C compiler uses r13 as fp.

Instructions

All ALU instructions and MOV set flags.

[^1]: May be implemented as a constant shift of 1.

c4i can be omitted from the assembly instruction, in which case it is set to 0.

Pseudo-instructions

Condition codes

Assembly language

Assembly statements generally follow the following structure

[LABEL:] MNEMONIC [OPERAND[, OPERAND]...]

The available MNEMONICs can be found in the table above. OPERANDs can be registers, constants, or labels. Labels used as operands must be prefixed with @:

loop: jmp @loop

When the operand is used as the contents of a memory address, it must be enclosed in square brackets:

ldr r0, [@inp]
.section data
inp: .db 0

Apart from these statements, the assembler recognizes the following directives:

• .include "FILE"
  

  Includes a given FILE. The path is relative to the file being processed.

• .section SECTION
  

  Define into which memory SECTION the subsequent code is assembled. Options are code and data. The default is code.

• .org ADDRESS
  

  Sets memory ADDRESS at which the subsequent code will be assembled.

• .equ LABEL VALUE
  

  Creates a LABEL for a specific constant VALUE. Values may be character constants, e.g. "c"

• .db VALUE
  

  Inserts a VALUE into the instruction stream. The value may be a string constant, e.g. "Hello, world"

• .macro NAME
  ; code
  .endmacro
  

  Defines a macro. The code inside the macro can use arguments of the form $0, $1, etc., which are replaced by the actual arguments when the macro is called using NAME arg0, arg1. Labels inside the macro that start with an underscore are localized such that the same macro can be called multiple times.

Installation

pip install puc8

or

git clone https://github.com/wcaarls/puc8
cd puc8
pip install .

Usage

usage: as-puc8 [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-s] [-t N] [-E] file

PUC8 Assembler (c) 2020-2023 Wouter Caarls, PUC-Rio

positional arguments:
  file                  ASM source file

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file
  -s, --simulate        Simulate resulting program
  -t N, --test N        Simulate for 1000 steps and check whether PC == N
  -E                    Output preprocessed assembly code

usage: cc-puc8 [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-s] [-t N] [-S] [-O {0,1,2}] file

PUC8 C compiler (c) 2020-2023 Wouter Caarls, PUC-Rio

positional arguments:
  file                  C source file

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file
  -s, --simulate        Simulate resulting program
  -t N, --test N        Simulate for 1000 steps and check whether PC == N
  -S                    Output assembly code
  -O {0,1,2}            Optimization level

Examples

Directly compile C to VHDL

./cc-puc8 examples/c/hello.c

Create assembly from C

./cc-puc8 examples/c/hello.c -S

Assemble to VHDL code

./as-puc8 examples/asm/ps2_lcd.asm

Assemble to VHDL package

./as-puc8 examples/asm/ps2_lcd.asm -o ps2_lcd.vhdl

Simulate resulting C or assembly program

./cc-puc8 -O0 examples/c/unittest.c -s
./as-puc8 examples/asm/simple.asm -s

Acknowledgments

The C compiler is based on PPCI.

Copyright (c) 2011-2019, Windel Bouwman

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