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Group I : Addressing modes for
register and immediate data
Group IV : Relative Addressing mode
Group V : Implied Addressing mode
Group III : Addressing modes for
I/O ports
Group II : Addressing modes for
memory data
Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
Every instruction of a program has to operate on a data.
The different ways in which a source operand is denoted
in an instruction are known as addressing modes.
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
The instruction will specify the name of the
register which holds the data to be operated by
the instruction.
Example:
MOV CL, DH
The content of 8-bit register DH is moved to
another 8-bit register CL
(CL) (DH)
Group I : Addressing modes for
register and immediate data
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
In immediate addressing mode, an 8-bit or 16-bit
data is specified as part of the instruction
Example:
MOV DL, 08H
The 8-bit data (08H) given in the instruction is
moved to DL
(DL) 08H
MOV AX, 0A9FH
The 16-bit data (0A9FH) given in the instruction is
moved to AX register
(AX) 0A9FH
Group I : Addressing modes for
register and immediate data
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Addressing Modes : Memory Access
8086 Microprocessor
20 Address lines 8086 can address up to
220
= 1M bytes of memory
However, the largest register is only 16 bits
Physical Address will have to be calculated
Physical Address : Actual address of a byte in
memory. i.e. the value which goes out onto the
address bus.
Memory Address represented in the form –
Seg : Offset (Eg - 89AB:F012)
Each time the processor wants to access
memory, it takes the contents of a segment
register, shifts it one hexadecimal place to the
left (same as multiplying by 1610), then add the
required offset to form the 20- bit address
89AB : F012 89AB 89AB0 (Paragraph to byte 89AB x 10 = 89AB0)
F012 0F012 (Offset is already in byte unit)
+ -------
98AC2 (The absolute address)
16 bytes of
contiguous memory
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
Here, the effective address of the memory
location at which the data operand is stored is
given in the instruction.
The effective address is just a 16-bit number
written directly in the instruction.
Example:
MOV BX, [1354H]
MOV BL, [0400H]
The square brackets around the 1354H denotes
the contents of the memory location. When
executed, this instruction will copy the contents of
the memory location into BX register.
This addressing mode is called direct because the
displacement of the operand from the segment
base is specified directly in the instruction.
Group II : Addressing modes
for memory data
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
In Register indirect addressing, name of the
register which holds the effective address (EA)
will be specified in the instruction.
Registers used to hold EA are any of the following
registers:
BX, BP, DI and SI.
Content of the DS register is used for base
address calculation.
Example:
MOV CX, [BX]
Operations:
EA = (BX)
BA = (DS) x 1610
MA = BA + EA
(CX) (MA) or,
(CL) (MA)
(CH) (MA +1)
Group II : Addressing modes
for memory data
Note : Register/ memory
enclosed in brackets refer
to content of register/
memory
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
In Based Addressing, BX or BP is used to hold the
base value for effective address and a signed 8-bit
or unsigned 16-bit displacement will be specified
in the instruction.
In case of 8-bit displacement, it is sign extended
to 16-bit before adding to the base value.
When BX holds the base value of EA, 20-bit
physical address is calculated from BX and DS.
When BP holds the base value of EA, BP and SS is
used.
Example:
MOV AX, [BX + 08H]
Operations:
0008H 08H (Sign extended)
EA = (BX) + 0008H
BA = (DS) x 1610
MA = BA + EA
(AX) (MA) or,
(AL) (MA)
(AH) (MA + 1)
Group II : Addressing modes
for memory data
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
SI or DI register is used to hold an index value for
memory data and a signed 8-bit or unsigned 16-
bit displacement will be specified in the
instruction.
Displacement is added to the index value in SI or
DI register to obtain the EA.
In case of 8-bit displacement, it is sign extended
to 16-bit before adding to the base value.
Example:
MOV CX, [SI + 0A2H]
Operations:
FFA2H A2H (Sign extended)
EA = (SI) + FFA2H
BA = (DS) x 1610
MA = BA + EA
(CX) (MA) or,
(CL) (MA)
(CH) (MA + 1)
Group II : Addressing modes
for memory data
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
In Based Index Addressing, the effective address
is computed from the sum of a base register (BX
or BP), an index register (SI or DI) and a
displacement.
Example:
MOV DX, [BX + SI + 0AH]
Operations:
000AH 0AH (Sign extended)
EA = (BX) + (SI) + 000AH
BA = (DS) x 1610
MA = BA + EA
(DX) (MA) or,
(DL) (MA)
(DH) (MA + 1)
Group II : Addressing modes
for memory data
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
Employed in string operations to operate on string
data.
The effective address (EA) of source data is stored
in SI register and the EA of destination is stored
in DI register.
Segment register for calculating base address of
source data is DS and that of the destination data
is ES
Example: MOVS BYTE
Operations:
Calculation of source memory location:
EA = (SI) BA = (DS) x 1610 MA = BA + EA
Calculation of destination memory location:
EAE = (DI) BAE = (ES) x 1610 MAE = BAE + EAE
(MAE) (MA)
If DF = 1, then (SI) (SI) – 1 and (DI) = (DI) - 1
If DF = 0, then (SI) (SI) +1 and (DI) = (DI) + 1
Group II : Addressing modes
for memory data
Note : Effective address of
the Extra segment register
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
These addressing modes are used to access data
from standard I/O mapped devices or ports.
In direct port addressing mode, an 8-bit port
address is directly specified in the instruction.
Example: IN AL, [09H]
Operations: PORTaddr = 09H
(AL) (PORT)
Content of port with address 09H is
moved to AL register
In indirect port addressing mode, the instruction
will specify the name of the register which holds
the port address. In 8086, the 16-bit port address
is stored in the DX register.
Example: OUT [DX], AX
Operations: PORTaddr = (DX)
(PORT) (AX)
Content of AX is moved to port
whose address is specified by DX
register.
Group III : Addressing
modes for I/O ports
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
In this addressing mode, the effective address of
a program instruction is specified relative to
Instruction Pointer (IP) by an 8-bit signed
displacement.
Example: JZ 0AH
Operations:
000AH 0AH (sign extend)
If ZF = 1, then
EA = (IP) + 000AH
BA = (CS) x 1610
MA = BA + EA
If ZF = 1, then the program control jumps to
new address calculated above.
If ZF = 0, then next instruction of the
program is executed.
Group IV : Relative
Addressing mode
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Addressing Modes
8086 Microprocessor
1. Register Addressing
2. Immediate Addressing
3. Direct Addressing
4. Register Indirect Addressing
5. Based Addressing
6. Indexed Addressing
7. Based Index Addressing
8. String Addressing
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
11. Relative Addressing
12. Implied Addressing
Instructions using this mode have no operands.
The instruction itself will specify the data to be
operated by the instruction.
Example: CLC
This clears the carry flag to zero.
Group IV : Implied
Addressing mode