NSASM User Manual: COP8 Assembly Tools Documentation
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NSASM

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overview
Installation

The NSASM package is a group of assembly development tools that support National Semiconductor's COP8™ microcontroller.

This manual provides application developers with the information they'll need to use NSASM. The goal is to help developers take control of these tools so they can work efficiently with the COP8s in their embedded applications.

The information contained in this manual is for reference only and is subject to change without notice.

No part of this document may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of National Semiconductor Corporation.

overview

The COP8 cross-assembler, asmcop, translates assembly source files into relocatable object modules that contain instructions in binary machine language. These object modules are linked using the COP8 cross-linker, lncop, to generate an absolute object module; the absolute object module contains the program memory image to be stored in a COP8. The asmcop object modules can also be combined into a library by using the COP8 cross-librarian, libcop. The following figure illustrates the software development process.

Each part of this manual describes one of the NSASM applications.

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