Mikroelektronika MIKROE-350 Data Sheet

The mikroBasic PRO for AVR allows you to access individual bits of 8-bit variables.
It also supports sbit and bit data types

To access the individual bits, simply use the direct member selector (.) with a vari-
able, followed by one of identifiers B0, B1, … , B7, or 0, 1, … 7, with 7 being the
most significant bit :

// Clear bit 0 on PORTA 

PORTA.B0 = 0

// Clear bit 5 on PORTB 

PORTB.5 = 0

There is no need of any special declarations. This kind of selective access is an
intrinsic feature of mikroBasic PRO for AVR and can be used anywhere in the code.
Identifiers B0–B7 are not case sensitive and have a specific namespace. You may
override them with your own members B0–B7 within any given structure.

See Predefined Globals and Constants for more information on register/bit names.

The mikroBasic PRO for AVR compiler has sbit data type which provides access to
bit-addressable SFRs. You can access them in several ways:

dim LEDA as sbit at PORTA.B0
dim Name as sbit at sfr-name.B<bit-position>

dim LEDB 

as sbit at PORTB.0

dim Name 

as sbit at sfr-name.<bit-position>

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