It is customary that the X space contains stationary arrays, e.g. digital filter coefficients, FFT blocks, etc, whereas the Y space contains dynamic arrays, e.g. samples of the signal being processed or similar. For this reason it was made possible that one section of he program memory is mapped as X space. This means that the coefficients of a digital filter may be saved in the program memory as constants, that this section of the program memory is declared an extention of the X space and that it is accessible as if it was in the data memory. Of course, the addresses of these elements will not be the same as in the program memory, but they will start from the address 0x8000, as can be seen in Fig. 11-2. In this way an additional capacity for saving coefficients has been obtained which is essential particularly for high order filters, FFT algorithms and many other applications. This procedure is known as Program Space Visibility (PSV) Management.

Address generation in PSV management is shown in Fig. 11-3. The element of the array to be read is in the program memory having 24-bit addresses, whereas DSP instructions can operate only with 16-bit addresses. The remaining 8 bits are obtaind from the PSVPAG register. The whole procedure reduces to the PSVPAG register writing the most significant byte od the 24-bit program memory address, PSV management is activated and the array is accessed as if it was in the data memory. The hardware of the DSP module will add 8 bits to each address, as shown in Fig.11-3. In this way a 24-bit address is generated and the array element has been read correctly. Example: PSV management is enabled. The array in the program memory starts from the address 0x108000 W1=0x8000 PSVPAG=0x21 In the binary system this is The underlined bit zero is the most significant bit that can be set to zero by hardware (see Fig. 11-3). EA denotes the Effective Address in the program memory. As Fig. 11-3 shows, of the program memory address only the 15 least significant bits are used and the highest bit is set to logic one to denote that the PSV management is enabled. 8 bits from the register PSVPAG are added to the above 15 bits and the highest bit in the program memory address is logic zero. In this way the addresses of the array elements in the program memory are obtained. All this is done automatically, i.e. when writing a program no attention should be payed to this. All that should be done is to set the corresponding value in the register PSVPAG and activate the PSV management in the register CORCON. The structure of the CORCON register is given at the end of this chapter.