4.4.2 Instruction Format

Instruction formats are specified as a comma separated list of string values containing information (bit specifiers) about each of the 32 bits of the instruction. Bit specifiers may be one of the following formats:

1

The bit is always set on input as well as output

0

The bit is always clear on input as well as output

x

The bit is ignored on input and output

a

The bit is an address bit, the bit-number matches this bit specifier’s position within the current instruction byte

aN

The bit is the Nth address bit, bit-number = N, i.e., a12 is address bit 12 on input, a0 is address bit 0.

i

The bit is an input data bit; as with a bits an input data bit can optionally be followed by a bit number, here between 0 and 7, if the bit needs to be moved to a different position in the SPI write command byte than it appears in memory.

o

The bit is an output data bit; as with i bits an output data bit can optionally be followed by a bit number; this is useful in case the part’s SPI read command places a particular bit into a different position than the write command put it, e.g., ATtiny22L or AT90S8535 lock bits.

Each instruction must be composed of 32 bit specifiers. The instruction specification closely follows the instruction data provided in Atmel’s data sheets for their parts. For example, the EEPROM read and write instruction for an AT90S2313 AVR part could be encoded as:

read  = "1  0  1  0   0  0  0  0   x x x x  x x x x",
        "x a6 a5 a4  a3 a2 a1 a0   o o o o  o o o o";

write = "1  1  0  0   0  0  0  0   x x x x  x x x x",
        "x a6 a5 a4  a3 a2 a1 a0   i i i i  i i i i";

As the address bit numbers in the SPI opcodes are highly systematic, they don’t really need to be specified. A compact version of the format specification neither uses bit-numbers for address lines nor spaces. If such a string is longer than 7 characters, then the characters 0, 1, x, a, i and o will be recognised as the corresponding bit, whilst any of the characters ., -, _ or / can act as arbitrary visual separators, which are ignored. Examples:

  loadpage_lo = "0100.0000--000x.xxxx--xxaa.aaaa--iiii.iiii";

  loadpage_lo = "0100.0000", "000x.xxxx", "xxaa.aaaa", "iiii.iiii";

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