Keil: Assembler program that converts ASCII number into BCD and HEX

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Question

this Keil uVision program should load a positive whole ASCII number (e.g 1234). The Program should convert it into BCD coded number in Register R1 , and the HEX number in Register 2... can someone explain me what it does below? especially :

MOV     R4,#10

and

AND     R1,R3,#0xF
MLA     R2,R4,R2,R3

??? here is the program:

LDR R0, =Wert ; Pointer laden
    LDR R1,[R0]
    BL KONVERT ; Unterprogramm KONVERT aufrufen
endlos         B        endlos


KONVERT
    LDRB    R3,[R0],#1 ; Byte laden
    AND     R1,R3,#0xF ; ASCII-HEX-Wandlung
    MOV     R2,R1 ; HEX-Zahl
    MOV     R4,#10

    LDRB    R3,[R0],#1 ; nächstes laden
    AND     R3,R3,#0xF ; ASCII-Hex-Wandlung
    ORR     R1,R3,R1,LSL #4 ; BCD-Wert bilden
    MLA     R2,R4,R2,R3 ; HEX-Zahl

    LDRB    R3,[R0],#1 ; nächstes laden
    AND     R3,R3,#0xF ; ASCII-Hex-Wandlung
    ORR     R1,R3,R1,LSL #4 ; BCD-Wert bilden
    MLA     R2,R4,R2,R3 ; HEX-Zahl

    LDRB    R3,[R0],#1 ; nächstes laden
    AND     R3,R3,#0xF ; ASCII-Hex-Wandlung
    ORR     R1,R3,R1,LSL #4 ; BCD-Wert bilden
    MLA     R2,R4,R2,R3 ; HEX-Zahl

    BX      LR ; Rücksprung
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Solution 

MOV     R4,#10
; loads constant 10 decimal into R4

AND     R1,R3,#0xF
; 0x0F & R3 are stored in R1 (AND operation). This is used to remove the 0x30 offset of the numbers 0-9 in ASCII

MLA     R2,R4,R2,R3
; (R2 * R4) + R3 are stored in R2 (Multiply-Accumulate operation)

The ARM Infocenter is a good starting point for such questions.

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