Atmel Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit ATSAM4E-XPRO ATSAM4E-XPRO Data Sheet

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Signed Saturate and Unsigned Saturate to any bit position for two halfwords.

Syntax

op{cond} Rd, #n, Rm

where:

op

is one of:

SSAT16 Saturates a signed halfword value to a signed range.

USAT16 Saturates a signed halfword value to an unsigned range.

cond

is an optional condition code, see 

Rd

is the destination register.

n

specifies the bit position to saturate to:

n ranges from 1

n ranges from 0 to 15 for USAT.

to 16 for SSAT

Rm

is the register containing the value to saturate.

Operation

The SSAT16 instruction:

Saturates two signed 16-bit halfword values of the register with the value to saturate from selected by the bit
position in n.

Writes the results as two signed 16-bit halfwords to the destination register.

The USAT16 instruction: 

Saturates two unsigned 16-bit halfword values of the register with the value to saturate from selected by the bit
position in n.

Writes the results as two unsigned halfwords in the destination register.

Restrictions

Do not use SP and do not use PC

Condition Flags

These instructions do not affect the condition code flags.

If saturation occurs, these instructions set the Q flag to 1.

Examples

SSAT16

R7, #9, R2

; Saturates the top and bottom highwords of R2

; as 9-bit values, writes to corresponding halfword

 ; of R7

USAT16NE

R0, #13, R5

; Conditionally saturates the top and bottom

 ; halfwords of R5 as 13-bit values, writes to

 ; corresponding halfword of R0.