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The 24 bit PIC® architecture allows for very easy access from most instructions to locations 0x0000 to 0x1FFF. There are some additional instructions to move data from a working register to a location in the 0x2000 to 0x7FFF range. Note that 0x0000 to 0x07FF (or 0x0FFF on some parts) are special function registers, not general RAM.
Some devices have more than 30K of RAM. For these devices a special method is required to access the RAM above 30K. This extended RAM is organized into pages of 32K bytes each. The only way to access that RAM from assembly is to set a page register to identify the RAM page and then use indirect addresses from 0x8000 to 0xFFFF. Note that the first page is used to map program memory into the RAM address space. The other pages are the extended RAM.
From C, the compiler will allocate variables into the first page of extended RAM only. To access additional memory special functions must be used.
The basic functions to access that RAM are:
write_extended_ram(p, addr, ptr, n); Writes n bytes from ptr to extended RAM page p starting at address addr.
read_extended_ram(p,addr,ptr,n); Reads n bytes from extended RAM page p starting at address addr to ptr.
The first page is 1.
Example Code:
write_extended_ram(1,0x100,WriteData,8); //Writes 8 bytes from WriteData to //addresses 0x100 to 0x107 of
//extended RAM page 1.
read_extended_ram(1,0x100,ReadData,8); //Reads 8 bytes from addresses 0x100 //to 0x107 of extended RAM page 1
//to ReadData.
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