This document discusses the different addressing modes of the 8051 microcontroller. It describes five addressing modes: immediate, direct, register direct, register indirect, and indexed. The immediate addressing mode transfers an 8-bit data directly to the accumulator. The direct addressing mode specifies the address of the source data instead of an immediate value. The register direct mode uses a register name as the source operand. The register indirect mode uses the value in a register as the address of the source data. Finally, the indexed addressing mode adds the value of a register like the data pointer or program counter to the accumulator to use as the address.