Program Counter
PC/R0
Stack Pointer
SP/R1
Status Register
SR/CG1/R2
Constant Generator
CG2/R3
General-Purpose Register
R4
General-Purpose Register
R5
General-Purpose Register
R6
General-Purpose Register
R7
General-Purpose Register
R8
General-Purpose Register
R9
General-Purpose Register
R10
General-Purpose Register
R11
General-Purpose Register
R12
General-Purpose Register
R13
General-Purpose Register
R15
General-Purpose Register
R14
36
MSP430G2533, MSP430G2433, MSP430G2333, MSP430G2233
MSP430G2403, MSP430G2303, MSP430G2203
SLAS734G – APRIL 2011 – REVISED APRIL 2016
www.ti.com
Submit Documentation Feedback
Product Folder Links:
MSP430G2533 MSP430G2433 MSP430G2333 MSP430G2233 MSP430G2403 MSP430G2303
MSP430G2203
Detailed Description
Copyright © 2011–2016, Texas Instruments Incorporated
6
Detailed Description
6.1
CPU
The MSP430 CPU has a 16-bit RISC architecture that is highly transparent to the application. All
operations, other than program-flow instructions, are performed as register operations in conjunction with
seven addressing modes for source operand and four addressing modes for destination operand.
The CPU is integrated with 16 registers that provide reduced instruction execution time. The register-to-
register operation execution time is one cycle of the CPU clock. Four of the registers, R0 to R3, are
dedicated as program counter, stack pointer, status register, and constant generator, respectively. The
remaining registers are general-purpose registers (see
Figure 6-1
).
Peripherals are connected to the CPU using data, address, and control buses, and can be handled with all
instructions.
The instruction set consists of the original 51 instructions with three formats and seven address modes
and additional instructions for the expanded address range. Each instruction can operate on word and
byte data.
Figure 6-1. Integrated CPU Registers