[LLVMdev] New 8bit micro controller back-end

[Anton Korobeynikov]

Hello

> Our 8-bit port for PIC16 has taken roughly about 18 months to get to where
> we are now. Our instruction set is not orthogonal, data memory is banked,
> program memory is paged, there is only one accumulator and two pointer
> registers, and the use of indirect memory access is really expensive. So we
> had to implement some non conventional approaches to get the model working.
I assumed that the architecture in question is pretty similar to one
seen in msp430.
For something PIC16-like the time efforts are much higher, yes.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University