Central processing unit STM8
The 8-bit STM8 core is designed for code efficiency and performance.
It contains 6 internal registers which are directly addressable in each execution context, 20
addressing modes including indexed indirect and relative addressing and 80 instructions.
Architecture and registers
• Harvard architecture
• 3-stage pipeline
• 32-bit wide program memory bus - single cycle fetching for most instructions
• X and Y 16-bit index registers - enabling indexed addressing modes with or without offset
and read-modify-write type data manipulations
• 8-bit accumulator
• 24-bit program counter - 16-Mbyte linear memory space
• 16-bit stack pointer - access to a 64 K-level stack
• 8-bit condition code register - 7 condition flags for the result of the last instruction