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99000 Pure theory: CSEG PSEG model


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This is pure theory. I I though  about it during my commute. 

 

Suppose you used the segmented code/data memory model of the 99000. Program  segment (PSEG) is in distinct address space from Data segment. Loaded into different blocks of RAM. Which are selected by the BST bus status codes telling whether the 99000 is fetching code or data. 

 

I’m stuck thinking through how a branch table would appear. 

 

Am I right that this model breaks code like:

 

 PSEG   * directive: program segment 

 

DSRLNK DATA DSRWS,DSR0

DSR0 MOV *R14+,R1

 BIND JMPTBL,R1

 

JMPTBL DATA 0,0,0,0,DSR8,DSR10

 

START
 LWPI MYWS

BLWP @DSRLNK

 DATA 8

 

DSEG * directive: data segment

 

 BSS DSRWS

 BSS MYWS

 END

 

  • Does BLWP fetch vector with BST = IAQ? 
  • Does DSRLNK vector belong in program or data segment?
  • *R14 would access data space, uhoh, not seeing the DATA 8
  • Dunno how JMPTBL is linked/loaded 

 

Is the Tagged Object Loader, as we know it, capable of resolving the JMPTBL addresses? (Supposing it had been loading a PSEG and DSEG into separate pages in this model.) should JMPTBL be in program or data segment?

 

Does BIND access JMPTBL as a IOP (immediate operands) or general memory? (Wrong segment!) On the other hand, Should JMPTBL be in program, or data segment using REF/DEF? (Is this a use case for SREF?)

 

Do like this instead of BIND? (Branch indirect)

MOV *R14+,R1

MOV @JMPTBL(R1),R2

B *R2

 

And put JMPTBL in the data segment?

 

 

Thoroughly confused. 

 

Again, this is all theoretical, I’m not going to implement this. 

 

 

 

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I'm thinking the instruction execution sequence tables in https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/TMS9900/MP009_99105A_99110A_Nov82.pdf* will be of use to you here. Table 19 sections on pages 81 and 82 show the branch instruction sequences and bus status codes you're concerned with. 

 

* also here: http://ftp.whtech.com/datasheets and manuals/Datasheets - TI/MP009_99105A_99110A_Nov82.pdf

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Ah, well, yes, there was some rearranging a while back and the dir was moved.  I was working from an old scratch copy.  Sorry.  The file appears to have been lost in the shuffle somehow, but it's on archive.org, or the preliminary datasheet is at http://www.bitsavers.org/components/ti/TMS9900/TMS99105A_and_TMS99110A_16-Bit_Microprocessors_Preliminary_Data_Manual_Nov82.pdf Same info, same pages. Maybe just another scan of the same doc.

 

The instruction tables in the 990 assembly manual are helpful as well:  http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/990/assembler/2270509-9701A_AsmRef_Nov82.pdf

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