AT90S/LS2323/2343 General-purpose Register File Figure 7 shows the structure of the 32 general-purpose registers in the CPU. Figure 7. AVR CPU General-purpose Working Registers 7 0 Addr. R0 $00 R1 $01 R2 $02 … R13 $0D General R14 $0E Purpose R15 $0F Working R16 $10 Registers R17 $11 … R26 $1A X-register low byte R27 $1B X-register high byte R28 $1C Y-register low byte R29 $1D Y-register high byte R30 $1E Z-register low byte R31 $1F Z-register high byte All the register operating instructions in the instruction set have direct and single-cycle access to all registers. The only exception is the five constant arithmetic and logic instructions SBCI, SUBI, CPI, ANDI and ORI between a constant and a register and the LDI instruction for load immediate constant data. These instructions apply to the second half of the registers in the register file (R16.R31). The general SBC, SUB, CP, AND and OR and all other operations between two registers or on a single register apply to the entire register file. As shown in Figure 7, each register is also assigned a data memory address, mapping them directly into the first 32 locations of the user Data Space. Although the register file is not physically implemented as SRAM locations, this memory organization provides great flexibility in access of the registers, as the X-, Y-, and Z-registers can be set to index any register in the file. 9 1004D–09/01