DSPIC33FJ12MC202 Microchip Technology Inc., DSPIC33FJ12MC202 Datasheet - Page 26

• Manufacturer Part Number: DSPIC33FJ12MC202
• Description: High-performance, 16-bit Digital Signal Controllers
• Manufacturer: Microchip Technology Inc.

3.1.1
The program memory space is organized in word-
addressable blocks. Although it is treated as 24 bits
wide, it is more appropriate to think of each address of
the program memory as a lower and upper word, with
the upper byte of the upper word being unimplemented.
The lower word always has an even address, while the
upper word has an odd address (Figure 3-2).
Program memory addresses are always word-aligned
on the lower word, and addresses are incremented or
decremented by two during code execution. This
arrangement provides compatibility with data memory
space addressing and makes data in the program
memory space accessible.
FIGURE 3-2:
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0x000001
0x000003
0x000005
0x000007
Address
msw
PROGRAM MEMORY
ORGANIZATION
Program Memory
PROGRAM MEMORY ORGANIZATION
‘Phantom’ Byte
(read as ‘0’)
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
most significant word
23
Preliminary
16
Instruction Width
3.1.2
All dsPIC33FJ12MC201/202 devices reserve the
addresses between 0x00000 and 0x000200 for hard-
coded program execution vectors. A hardware Reset
vector is provided to redirect code execution from the
default value of the PC on device Reset to the actual
start of code. A GOTO instruction is programmed by the
user application at 0x000000, with the actual address
for the start of code at 0x000002.
dsPIC33FJ12MC201/202 devices also have two
interrupt vector tables, located from 0x000004 to
0x0000FF and 0x000100 to 0x0001FF. These vector
tables allow each of the device interrupt sources to be
handled by separate Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs).
A more detailed discussion of the interrupt vector
tables is provided in Section 6.1 “Interrupt Vector
Table”.
least significant word
8
INTERRUPT AND TRAP VECTORS
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0
(lsw Address)
PC Address
0x000000
0x000002
0x000004
0x000006