Endianess

Technical discussions around xCORE processors (e.g. xcore-200 & xcore.ai).
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MastaTabs
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Endianess

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Hi,

I've been browsing through a lot of documentation but wasn't able to find an essential information.
What byte order does an xcore processor use ?

I guess its operating in little endian byte order ?

regs
Tobias


richard
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Post by richard »

Memory is little endian (least significant byte at lowest address). Channels can be considered to be big endian (most significant byte sent first over the the channel).

The byterev instruction reverses bytes in a word, allowing efficient access to data stored in big endian format.
MastaTabs
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Post by MastaTabs »

Thanks!
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