Addressing Modes

of
8086 Microprocessor

D Murali Krishna
Department of ECE, SVECW.
Addressing Modes:
• The way of specifying the operands is called
Addressing Modes
• There are 12 addressing modes
Contd.,
1. Immediate Addressing Mode:
• Operand is specified in the instruction
followed by Mnemonic
Eg: MOV AX,0005H
Contd.,
2. Register Addressing Mode:
• The operand is stored in register
• That register is specified in the instruction
Eg: MOV BX, AX
• Note: Except ‘IP’ all registers can used in this mode
Contd.,
3. Direct Addressing Mode:
• Operand is stored in a memory location
• The offset address of that memory locations
is specified in the instruction
Eg: MOV AX,[5000]
• Offset address 5000 and content of DSR is
used to calculate 20-bit physical address of
DS memory
– 10H*DS + 5000H
Contd.,
4. Register Indirect Addressing Mode:
• The operand is stored in a memory locations
• The address of memory location stroed in a
register
• That register is specified in the instruction
Eg: MOV AX, [BX]
Note:
– In this, offset address of data is either in BX or SI or DI
register
– The default segment is either ‘DS’ or ‘ES’.
Contd.,
5. Indexed Addressing Mode:
• Offset of operand is stored in one of the
Indexed registers
• That Index Register is specified in the
instruction
Eg: MOV AX, [SI]

10H*DS + [SI]
Note:
– DS is default memory for SI and DI
– In string operations DS is for SI and ES for DI
Contd.,
6. Register Relative Addressing Mode:
• Operand is stored in one of the memory
location
• The effective address of that memory
location is formed by 8/16-bit displacement
with the content of BX, BP, SI and DI
Eg: MOV AX, 50H[BX]

10H*DS + 50H + [BX]

Note:
– Default segment is DS or ES
Contd.,
7. Based Index Addressing Mode:
• Operand is stored in one of the memory location
• The effective address of that memory location is
formed by adding content of base register (BX or
BP) to the content of Index Register (SI or DI)
Eg: MOV AX, [BX] [SI]

10H*DS + [BX] + [SI]

Note:
– Default segment is DS or ES
Contd.,
8. Relative Based Index Addressing Mode:
• Operand is stored in one of the memory location
• The effective address of that memory location is
formed by adding 8/16-bit displacement with
contents of base register (BX or BP) and the
content of Index Register (SI or DI)
Eg: MOV AX, 50H [BX] [SI]

10H*DS + [BX] + [SI] + 50H

Note:
– Default segment is DS or ES
Contd.,
9. Implicit Addressing Mode:
• Operand is stored in one

• Eg: 1. MUL BX
2. DAA
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10.Intrasegment Direct Addressing Mode:
• In this the control is to be transferred lies in
the same segment
• The address of the instruction to which
control has to transfer is specified as a label
(name) in the current instruction

Eg: JMP NEXT

Contd.,
11.Intrasegment Indirect Addressing Mode:
• In this the control is to be transferred lies in
the same segment
• The address of the instruction to which
control has to transfer is specified in a
indirect way by using register

Eg: JMP [BX]

Contd.,
12.Intersegment Direct Addressing Mode:
• In this the control is to be transferred lies in a
different segment
• This addressing mode provides a means of
branching from one code segment to another
code segment.
• Here, the CS and IP of the destination address
are specified directly in the instruction.
Eg: JMP 5000H:2000H
– Jump to address 2000H in segment
5000H
Contd.,
13. Intersegment Indirect Addressing Mode:
• In this the control is to be transferred lies in a
different segment
• It is passed to the instruction indirectly, i.e. contents
of a memory block containing four bytes, i.e.
IP(LSByte), IP(MSByte), CS(LSByte) and CS(MSByte)
sequentially.
• The starting address of the memory block may be
referred using any of the addressing modes, except
immediate mode.
Eg: JMP [2000H]
• Jump to an address in the other segment specified at
offset address 2000H in DS. Here, the ‘CS’ and ‘IP’ of
the destination address are specified directly in the
instruction.