CHAPTER 3

Intel 8086 Registers and Addressing Modes

Atanu Shome
Computer Science and Engineering Discipline
Khulna University
Confession

■ Most of the materials have been collected from Internet.

■ Images are taken from Internet.
■ Various books are used to make these slides.
■ Primary reference book:
I. Microprocessor and Microcomputer based system
design by Dr. M. Rafiquzzaman
■ The Intel Microprocessors by Barry B. Brey

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This slide is not enough to learn these topics. It’s just for
your guideline. (NAH! Just a reminder for me - which
topics to cover) Reading from the slides only, will be a BIG
mistake.

YOU NEED TO READ THE DAMN BOOK

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Segmented Memory Problem

■ Can be overlapping for different segments

■ Different logical address can point to same physical address
■ Write 4 different CS:IP values for the same memory address 12BE7h
12BEh:0007h
12BDh:0017h
12BCh:0027h
12BBh:0037h

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20 bit Stack Physical Address
Calculation
■ SS and SP

■ In based addressing mode, BP instead of SP

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8086 Registers

■ 8 general registers What are they for?

■ 16 bit each
■ AX, BX, CX, DX, SP, BP, SI,DI

Read the book

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8086 Flags
■ Six one-bit flags
■ AF
■ CF
■ OF
■ SF
■ PF
■ ZF
■ Three control bit in flag
registers: DF, IF, TF

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Example

■ Find out the status of CF, OF, PF, SF flags of 8086 after the following assembly
instructions:
MOV AX, 7FFFh
MOV BX, 8001h
ADD AX,BX

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Addressing Modes of 8086

■ Five groups
– Register and Immediate mode
– Memory mode
– I/O mode
– Relative addressing mode
– Implied addressing mode

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Register and Immediate Addressing
Mode
1. Register Addressing Mode
MOV DX, CX
MOV AL,DL
2. Immediate Addressing Mode
MOV CL, 03H
OR
VALUE EQU 03H
MOV CL,VALUE

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Memory Modes

3. Direct Addressing Mode

MOV CX, DS:START
START=0040h, [DS]=3050h, What are addresses from which data will be
transferred in CX?
30540h to CL, 30541h to CH
4. Register Indirect Addressing Mode
MOV [DI],BX
[DS]=5004h, [DI]=0020h, [BX]=3456h – Then, after the execution of above
instruction, what will happen?

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Memory Modes

5. Based Addressing Modes

(Uses DS, SS, BX, BP)
MOV AL, START [BX]
MOV AL, [BX+START]

6. Indexed Addressing Mode

MOV BH, ARRAY[SI]

7. Based Indexed Addressing Mode

MOV ALPHA[SI][BX]

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Memory Modes

8. String Addressing Mode

MOVS BYTE
IF [DF]=0, [DS]=2000h, [SI]=0500h, [ES]=4000h, [DI]=0300h, [20500] 16=38h &
[40300]16=45h
Then, after the instruction execution
[40300]16 = 38h, [SI]=0501h, and [DI]=0301h

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I/O Modes

9. I/O Addressing xModes

OUT 05h, AL
IN AL,DX

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Relative Addressing Mode & Implied
Addressing Mode
10. Relative Addressing Mode
JNC START

11. Implied Addressing Mode

CLC
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6pFW209lfk
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP-4FlwNTvw
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGsuwrM8Tc
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_RGiKWPBg

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Practice

■ What will happen after the following operation if DF is set to 0?

a[DI] = b [SI]

■ Determine the addressing modes of the following instructions:

i. MOV BX, 0235H
ii. MOV CS, DS:START
iii. MOV BH, ARRAY[SI]

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