Oops, good catch. That was my mistake in transcribing from the little
scrap of paper I was working this out on. Other than that, should my
routine work?

Josh
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Doug Hewett wrote:
>
> The 'lower 6 bits' should be b'00111111'
> and the 'upper 2 bits' should be....
>
> Your example code takes the upper 6 bits from PORTA inasmuchas it clears the lower 2 bits.
>
>> Hi, just want to get a quick check of my code. I think it will work, but
>> I want to be sure. Basically I want to take the lower 6 bits from PortA,
>> the 2 upper bits from PortB, and mask them together into one byte. Will
>> this work?
>>         movf    PORTA, W
>>         andlw   b'11111100'
>>         movwf   TEMP
>>        movf    PORTB, W
>>         andlw   b'00000011'
>>         iorwf   TEMP, F

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