Re: Define Word DW statement in MSP430 program

"Onestone [email protected] [msp430]" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:56:11 +1030
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.texas-instruments.msp430.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This looks like a simple conversion table. DW reserves and sets a word 
in memory, so this would be in flash somewhere. Simply put the program 
looks like it will receive, or read a value from somewhere, which it 
then translates.

The first value after 'DW' is the value stored. The next values, which 
follow the semicolon are comments (assembler comments follow a ';') and 
inform the programmer what the stored value relates to, probably as a 
read number. It appears that this is reading something, say a 
temperature sensor, then reading the table to collect the next level of 
data it needs to process. It cannot be a scanned table because of the 
out of order and duplicate entries, ie this isn't a table that the 
program searches through. therefore you will probably find it is 
accessed by an instruction like:

         MOV        data,Rxx
         MOV       COND_TAB(Rxx),&SOMEVAR

or

         MOV        #COND_TAB,Rxx
         ADD        data,Rxx
         MOV        @Rxx,SOMEVAR

Can't guess much more without a lot more information, but simply put 
changing the table values will change the result, and unless you have 
changed the sensor, or the way the data is interpreted then you probably 
don't need to do much here.

Al

On 27/10/2015 12:16 PM, MuangMuang Soe [email protected] 
[msp430] wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to understand the usage of the DW statement in this program.
> These program was written by a previous staff who has left the co,
> Anyone can explain. As I'm trying to modify the program parameters.
>
> ;***********************************************************************************
> ; Conductivity Table
> ; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
> * * * * *
>  EVEN
> COND_TAB
>  DW 0000h  ; 00.0
>  DW 0000h  ; 00.2
>  DW 0000h  ; 00.4
>  DW 0FFFFh  ; 00.6
>  DW 0FFFFh  ; 00.8
>  DW 0FFFEh  ; 01.0
>  DW 0FFFEh  ; 01.2
>  DW 0FFFDh  ; 01.4
>  DW 0FFFDh  ; 01.6
>  DW 0FFFEh  ; 01.8
>  DW 0FFFEh  ; 02.0
>  DW 0FFFFh  ; 02.2
>  DW 0FFFFh  ; 02.4
>  DW 0000h  ; 02.6
>  DW 0000h  ; 02.8
>  DW 0000h  ; 03.0
>  DW 0001h  ; 03.2
>  DW 0002h  ; 03.4
>  DW 0004h  ; 03.6
>  DW 0006h  ; 03.8
>  DW 0008h  ; 04.0
>  DW 000Ah  ; 04.2
>  DW 000Ch  ; 04.4
>  DW 000Eh  ; 04.6
>  DW 0010h  ; 04.8
>  DW 0013h  ; 05.0
>  DW 0016h  ; 05.2
>  DW 0019h  ; 05.4
>  DW 001Ch  ; 05.6
>  DW 001Fh  ; 05.8
>  DW 0022h  ; 06.0
>  DW 0025h  ; 06.2
>  DW 0028h  ; 06.4
>  DW 002Bh  ; 06.6
>  DW 002Dh  ; 06.8
>  DW 0031h  ; 07.0
>  DW 0034h  ; 07.2
>  DW 0037h  ; 07.4
>  DW 003Ah  ; 07.6
>  DW 003Dh  ; 07.8
>  DW 0040h  ; 08.0
>  DW 0043h  ; 08.2
>  DW 0046h  ; 08.4
>  DW 0049h  ; 08.6
>  DW 004Ch  ; 08.8
>  DW 004Fh  ; 09.0
>  DW 0052h  ; 09.2
>  DW 0055h  ; 09.4
>  DW 0058h  ; 09.6
>  DW 005Bh  ; 09.8
>  DW 005Dh  ; 10.0
>
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