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Conventions and feedback Assembler command line options ARM and Thumb Instructions Instruction summary Instruction width specifiers Memory access instructions General data processing instructions Flexible second operand (Operand2) Operand2 as a constant Operand2 as a register with optional shift Shift operations Multiply instructions Saturating instructions Parallel instructions Parallel add and subtract Packing and unpacking instructions Branch and control instructions Coprocessor instructions Miscellaneous instructions ThumbEE instructions Pseudo-instructions Condition codes ADD, SUB, RSB, ADC, SBC, and RSC ADR (PC-relative) ADR (register-relative) ADRL pseudo-instruction AND, ORR, EOR, BIC, and ORN ASR, LSL, LSR, ROR, and RRX B, BL, BX, BLX, and BXJ BFC and BFI BKPT CBZ and CBNZ CDP and CDP2 CHKA CLREX CLZ CMP and CMN CPS CPY pseudo-instruction DBG DMB, DSB, and ISB ENTERX and LEAVEX ERET HB, HBL, HBLP, and HBP IT LDC, LDC2, STC, and STC2 LDM and STM LDR and STR (immediate offset) LDR and STR (register offset) LDR and STR, unprivileged LDR (PC-relative) LDR (register-relative) LDR pseudo-instruction LDREX and STREX MAR and MRA MCR, MCR2, MCRR, and MCRR2 MIA, MIAPH, and MIAxy MOV and MVN MOV32 pseudo--instruction MOVT MRC, MRC2, MRRC and MRRC2 MRS (system coprocessor register to ARM register) MRS (PSR to general-purpose register) MSR (ARM register to system coprocessor register) MSR (general-purpose register to PSR) MUL, MLA, and MLS NEG pseudo-instruction PKHBT and PKHTB PLD, PLDW, and PLI PUSH and POP QADD, QSUB, QDADD, and QDSUB REV, REV16, REVSH, and RBIT RFE SBFX and UBFX SDIV and UDIV SEL SETEND SEV, WFE, WFI, and YIELD SMC NOP SMLAD and SMLSD SMLALxy SMLALD and SMLSLD SMMUL, SMMLA, and SMMLS SMUAD{X} and SMUSD{X} SMULxy and SMLAxy SMULWy and SMLAWy SRS SSAT and USAT SSAT16 and USAT16 SUBS pc, lr SVC SWP and SWPB SXT, SXTA, UXT, and UXTA SYS TBB and TBH TST and TEQ UMULL, UMLAL, SMULL, and SMLAL UMAAL UND pseudo-instruction USAD8 and USADA8 VFP Programming Directives Reference

Assembler Reference

SSAT16 and USAT16

SSAT16 and USAT16

Parallel halfword Saturating instructions.

SSAT16 saturates a signed value to a signed range.

USAT16 saturates a signed value to an unsigned range.

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op{cond} Rd, #sat, Rn

where:

op

is one of:

SSAT16

Signed saturation.

USAT16

Unsigned saturation.

cond

is an optional condition code.

Rd

is the destination register.

sat

specifies the bit position to saturate to, and is in the range 1 to 16 for SSAT16, or 0 to 15 for USAT16.

Rn

is the register holding the operand.

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Halfword-wise signed and unsigned saturation to any bit position.

The SSAT16 instruction saturates each signed halfword to the signed range -2sat-1 ≤ x ≤ 2sat-1 -1.

The USAT16 instruction saturates each signed halfword to the unsigned range 0 ≤ x ≤ 2sat -1.

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You cannot use PC for any register.

You can use SP in ARM instructions but these are deprecated in ARMv6T2 and above. You cannot use SP in Thumb instructions.

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If saturation occurs on either halfword, these instructions set the Q flag. To read the state of the Q flag, use an MRS instruction.

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These ARM instructions are available in ARMv6 and above.

These 32-bit Thumb instructions are available in ARMv6T2 and above. For the ARMv7-M architecture, they are only available in an ARMv7E-M implementation.

There are no 16-bit Thumb versions of these instructions.

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    SSAT16  r7, #12, r7
    USAT16  r0, #7, r5

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    SSAT16  r1, #16, r2, LSL #4 ; shifts not permitted with halfword saturations
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