Chapter 2- System software and machine architecture

Lecture 2
SIC Programming Examples

 In this lecture we are going to study some examples of

SIC and SIC/XE instructions that implement some tasks,
namely, data movement operations, sample arithmetic
operations, and finally looping and indexing operations.

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 Data movement operations (SIC)

LDA FIVE LOAD CONSTANT 5 INTO A

STA ALPHA STORE A INTO ALPHA
LDCH CHARZ LOAD CHARACTER ‘Z’ INTO A

STCH C1 STORE A INTO C1

ALPHA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
FIVE WORD 5 ONE-WORD CONSTANT
CHARZ BYTE c’z’ ONE BYTE CONSTANT
C1 RESB 1 ONE-BYTE VARIABLE

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 Data movement operations (SIC/XE)

LDA #5 LOAD VALUE 5 INTO A

STA ALPHA STORE A INTO ALPHA
LDCH #90 LOAD ASCII CODE OF ‘Z’ INTO A

STCH C1 STORE A INTO C1

ALPHA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
C1 RESB 1 ONE-BYTE VARIABLE

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 Sample arithmetic operations: ALPHA + INCR - 1 &
GAMMA + INCR – 1 (SIC)

LDA ALPHA LOAD ALPHA INTO A

ADD INCR ADD THE VALUE OF INCR
SUB ONE SUBTRACT 1
STA BETA STORE A INTO BETA
LDA GAMMA LOAD GAMMA INTO A
ADD INCR ADD THE VALUE OF INCR
SUB ONE SUBTRACT 1
STA DELTA STORE IN DELTA
ONE WORD 1 ONE-WORD CONSTANT
ALPHA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
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 Sample arithmetic operations: ALPHA + INCR - 1 &
GAMMA + INCR – 1 (SIC)

BETA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE

GAMMA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
DELTA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
INCR RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE

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 Sample arithmetic operations: ALPHA + INCR - 1 &
GAMMA + INCR – 1 (SIC/XE)

LDS INCR LOAD INCR INTO S

LDA ALPHA LOAD ALPHA INTO A
ADDR S,A ADD THE VALUE OF INCR
SUB #1 SUBTRACT 1
STA BETA STORE BETA INTO A
LDA GAMMA LOAD GAMMA INTO A
ADDR S,A ADD THE VALUE OF INCR
SUB #1 SUBTRACT 1
STA DELTA STORE IN DELTA
ALPHA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
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 Sample arithmetic operations: ALPHA + INCR - 1 &
GAMMA + INCR – 1 (SIC/XE)

BETA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE

GAMMA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
DELTA RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE
INCR RESW 1 ONE-WORD VARIABLE

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 Sample looping and indexing operations (SIC)

LDX ZERO SET INDEX REGISTER X TO 0

MOVECH LDCH STR1,X LOAD CHAR FROM STR1 INTO A

STCH STR2,X STORE A INTO STR2

TIX FOUR ADD 1 TO X THEN COMPARE TO 4

JLT MOVECH LOOP IF X IS LESS THAN 4

STR1 BYTE C’TEST’ 4-BYTE STRING CONSTANT
STR2 RESB 4 4-BYTE VARIABLE
ZERO WORD 0 ONE-WORD CONSTANT
FOUR WORD 4 ONE-WORD CONSTANT

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 Sample looping and indexing operations (SIC/XE)

LDT #4 SET REGISTER T TO 4

LDX #0 SET INDEX REGISTER X TO 0

MOVECH LDCH STR1,X LOAD CHAR FROM STR1 INTO A

STCH STR2,X STORE A INTO STR2

TIXR T ADD 1 TO X THEN COMPARE TO 4

JLT MOVECH LOOP IF INDEX IS LESS THAN 4

STR1 BYTE C’TEST’ 4-BYTE STRING CONSTANT
STR2 RESB 4 4-BYTE VARIABLE

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 Check point 2.1

Write a sequence of instructions to store the data value 8 in the

memory location ALPHA (for SIC and SIC/XE)

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 Answer

For SIC

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 Answer

For SIC/XE

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Reading

Recommended book, sections, 1.3.3.

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