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An Assembler for Suite-16

A project log for Suite-16

Suite-16 is a 16-bit cpu built entirely from TTL. It is a personal exploration of how hardware and software interact.

monsonitemonsonite 10/31/2019 at 13:010 Comments

I was delighted to receive a Twitter notification from Frank Eggink, one of this project's followers, with news that he had created a table of Suite-16 instructions so that it can be used by TASM - a table driven assembler popular for small micros about 20 years ago.

His customised table and a link to the dowload site for TASM32 can be found at his Github repository: Here  

Many thanks Frank - much appreciated your contribution!

I have re-jigged the instruction set slightly in the last few days - and the most recent can be found in this simulator file in my Github

With the changes to the instruction set, I now have no more empty slots, so the NOP at 0x0F00 seems a bit extravagant. 

With an 8-bit immediate add to the accumulator, the NOP can be created from ADI 0.

This frees up the 0x0Fxx slot for my proposed (PDP-8 like) OPR instructions including shifts, clears, complements and small constants.

The main changes are documented in the text header:

// A simple simulator for Suite-16 processor

// Add and Subtract Immediate instructions ADI and SBI added at 0x0Axx and 0x0Bxx
// IN moved to 0x0D00
// JP@ - Branch to the address held in the accumulator  added at 0x0E00

/* Suite-16 Instructions

Register OPS-
     0n        ---       --     Non-Register Ops
     1n        SET       Rn     Constant  (Set)         Rn = @(PC+1)
     2n        LD        Rn     (Load)                  AC = Rn
     3n        ST        Rn     (Store)                 Rn = AC
     4n        LD        @Rn    (Load Indirect)         AC = @Rn
     5n        ST        @Rn    (Store Indirect)        @Rn = AC
     6n        POP       @Rn    Pop  AC                 AC = @Rn  Rn = Rn - 1
     7n        PUSH      @Rn    Push AC                 @Rn = AC  Rn = Rn + 1 
     8n        AND       Rn     (AND)                   AC = AC & Rn 
     9n        OR        Rn     (OR)                    AC = AC | Rn 
     An        ADD       Rn     (Add)                   AC = AC + Rn
     Bn        SUB       Rn     (Sub)                   AC = AC - Rn
     Cn        INV       Rn     (Invert)                Rn = ~Rn
     Dn        DCR       Rn     (Decrement)             Rn = Rn - 1
     En        INR       Rn     (Increment)             Rn = Rn + 1
     Fn        XOR       Rn     (XOR)                   AC = AC ^ Rn
   
  
    
Non-register OPS-
     00        BRA    Always                        Target = IR7:0
     01        BGT    AC>0                          Target = IR7:0
     02        BLT    AC<0                          Target = IR7:0
     03        BGE    AC>=0                         Target = IR7:0
     04        BLE    AC<=0                         Target = IR7:0 
     05        BNE    AC!=0                         Target = IR7:0
     06        BEQ    AC=0                          Target = IR7:0     
     07        JMP    16-bit                        Target = @(PC+1)
     08        CALL   16-bit                        Target = @(PC+1)
     09        RET    Return
     0A        ADI    Add 8-bit Immediate           Immediate = IR7:0
     0B        SBI    Subtract 8-bit Immediate      Immediate = IR7:0
     0C        OUT                                  putchar(AC)
     0D        IN                                   AC = getchar()
     0E        JP@                                  BRA (R0)
     0F        NOP                                  AC &= AC
   
   */

        

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