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ADDRESSING MODES
Lecture No.3
Mohammed D. Ali
3rd stage
2018-2019
 8086 Microprocessor
Addressing Modes
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
Group I : Addressing modes for register and
2. Immediate Addressing immediate data

3. Direct Addressing

4. Register Indirect Addressing

5. Based Addressing
Group II : Addressing modes for memory data
6. Indexed Addressing

7. Based Index Addressing

8. String Addressing

9. Direct I/O port Addressing

Group III : Addressing modes for I/O ports
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing

11. Relative Addressing Group IV : Relative Addressing mode

2 12. Implied Addressing Group V : Implied Addressing mode

 8086 Microprocessor Group I : Addressing modes for register and

Addressing Modes immediate data

1. Register Addressing The instruction will specify the name of the

register which holds the data to be operated by
2. Immediate Addressing the instruction.
3. Direct Addressing Example:
4. Register Indirect Addressing
MOV CL, DH
5. Based Addressing
The content of 8-bit register DH is moved to
6. Indexed Addressing another 8-bit register CL

7. Based Index Addressing (CL)  (DH)

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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 8086 Microprocessor Group I : Addressing modes for register and
immediate data

1. Register Addressing Addressing Modes

In immediate addressing mode, an 8-bit or 16-bit
2. Immediate Addressing data is specified as part of the instruction
3. Direct Addressing
Example:
4. Register Indirect Addressing
MOV DL, 08H
5. Based Addressing
The 8-bit data (08H) given in the instruction is
6. Indexed Addressing moved to DL

7. Based Index Addressing (DL)  08H

8. String Addressing
MOV AX, 0A9FH
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
The 16-bit data (0A9FH) given in the instruction is
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
moved to AX register
11. Relative Addressing
(AX)  0A9FH
12. Implied Addressing

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8086 Microprocessor

Addressing Modes : Memory Access

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
16 bytes of contiguous
memory

89AB : F012  89AB  89AB0 (Paragraph to byte  89AB x 10 = 89AB0)

F012  0F012 (Offset is already in byte unit)
+ -------
98AC2 (The absolute address)
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 8086 Microprocessor Group II : Addressing modes for memory
data

1. Register Addressing Addressing Modes

2. Immediate Addressing
Here, the effective address of the memory
3. Direct Addressing
location at which the data operand is stored is
4. Register Indirect Addressing given in the instruction.

5. Based Addressing The effective address is just a 16-bit number

written directly in the instruction.
6. Indexed Addressing
Example:
7. Based Index Addressing
MOV BX, [1354H]
8. String Addressing MOV BL, [0400H]
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
The square brackets around the 1354H denotes
the contents of the memory location. When
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
executed, this instruction will copy the contents of
11. Relative Addressing the memory location into BX register.

12. Implied Addressing This addressing mode is called direct because the
displacement of the operand from the segment
base is specified directly in the instruction.

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 8086 Microprocessor Group II : Addressing modes for memory
data

1. Register Addressing
Addressing Modes
In Register indirect addressing, name of the
2. Immediate Addressing register which holds the effective address (EA)
will be specified in the instruction.
3. Direct Addressing
Registers used to hold EA are any of the following
4. Register Indirect Addressing registers:
5. Based Addressing
BX, BP, DI and SI.
6. Indexed Addressing
Content of the DS register is used for base
7. Based Index Addressing address calculation.

8. String Addressing Example:

Note : Register/ memory
enclosed in brackets refer to
9. Direct I/O port Addressing MOV CX, [BX]
content of register/ memory
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing Operations:

11. Relative Addressing EA = (BX)

BA = (DS) x 1016
12. Implied Addressing
MA = BA + EA

(CX)  (MA) or,

(CL)  (MA)
9 (CH)  (MA +1)
 8086 Microprocessor
Addressing Modes Group II : Addressing modes for memory
data

1. Register Addressing In Based Addressing, BX or BP is used to hold the

base value for effective address and a signed 8-bit
2. Immediate Addressing or unsigned 16-bit displacement will be specified
in the instruction.
3. Direct Addressing
In case of 8-bit displacement, it is sign extended
4. Register Indirect Addressing to 16-bit before adding to the base value.

5. Based Addressing When BX holds the base value of EA, 20-bit

physical address is calculated from BX and DS.
6. Indexed Addressing
When BP holds the base value of EA, BP and SS is
7. Based Index Addressing
used.
8. String Addressing
Example:
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
MOV AX, [BX + 08H]
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
Operations:
11. Relative Addressing
0008H  08H (Sign extended)
12. Implied Addressing EA = (BX) + 0008H
BA = (DS) x 1016
MA = BA + EA

(AX)  (MA) or,

(AL)  (MA)
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(AH)  (MA + 1)
 8086 Microprocessor Group II : Addressing modes for memory

Addressing Modes data

1. Register Addressing SI or DI register is used to hold an index value for

memory data and a signed 8-bit or unsigned 16-
2. Immediate Addressing bit displacement will be specified in the
instruction.
3. Direct Addressing
Displacement is added to the index value in SI or
4. Register Indirect Addressing DI register to obtain the EA.

5. Based Addressing In case of 8-bit displacement, it is sign extended

to 16-bit before adding to the base value.
6. Indexed Addressing

7. Based Index Addressing

Example:
8. String Addressing
MOV CX, [SI + 0A2H]
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
Operations:
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing
FFA2H  A2H (Sign extended)
11. Relative Addressing
EA = (SI) + FFA2H
12. Implied Addressing BA = (DS) x 1016
MA = BA + EA

(CX)  (MA) or,

(CL)  (MA)
(CH)  (MA + 1)
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 8086 Microprocessor Group II : Addressing modes for memory

Addressing Modes data

1. Register Addressing In Based Index Addressing, the effective address

is computed from the sum of a base register (BX
2. Immediate Addressing or BP), an index register (SI or DI) and a
displacement.
3. Direct Addressing
Example:
4. Register Indirect Addressing
MOV DX, [BX + SI + 0AH]
5. Based Addressing
Operations:
6. Indexed Addressing
000AH  0AH (Sign extended)
7. Based Index Addressing

8. String Addressing EA = (BX) + (SI) + 000AH

BA = (DS) x 1016
9. Direct I/O port Addressing MA = BA + EA

10. Indirect I/O port Addressing (DX)  (MA) or,

11. Relative Addressing (DL)  (MA)

(DH)  (MA + 1)
12. Implied Addressing

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 8086 Microprocessor
Group II : Addressing modes for memory

Addressing Modes data

1. Register Addressing Employed in string operations to operate on string

data.
2. Immediate Addressing
The effective address (EA) of source data is stored
3. Direct Addressing in SI register and the EA of destination is stored in
DI register.
4. Register Indirect Addressing
Segment register for calculating base address of
5. Based Addressing source data is DS and that of the destination data
is ES
6. Indexed Addressing

7. Based Index Addressing

Example: MOVS BYTE
8. String Addressing
Operations:
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
Calculation of source memory location:
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing EA = (SI) BA = (DS) x 1016 MA = BA + EA

11. Relative Addressing Calculation of destination memory location:

EAE = (DI) BAE = (ES) x 1016 MAE = BAE + EAE
12. Implied Addressing

Note : Effective address of the (MAE)  (MA)

Extra segment register
If DF = 1, then (SI)  (SI) – 1 and (DI) = (DI) - 1
13 If DF = 0, then (SI)  (SI) +1 and (DI) = (DI) + 1
 8086 Microprocessor
Group III : Addressing modes for I/O

Addressing Modes ports

1. Register Addressing These addressing modes are used to access data

from standard I/O mapped devices or ports.
2. Immediate Addressing
In direct port addressing mode, an 8-bit port
3. Direct Addressing address is directly specified in the instruction.

4. Register Indirect Addressing Example: IN AL, [09H]

5. Based Addressing Operations: PORTaddr = 09H

(AL)  (PORT)
6. Indexed Addressing
Content of port with address 09H is
7. Based Index Addressing
moved to AL register
8. String Addressing
In indirect port addressing mode, the instruction
9. Direct I/O port Addressing will specify the name of the register which holds
the port address. In 8086, the 16-bit port address
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing is stored in the DX register.

11. Relative Addressing Example: OUT [DX], AX

12. Implied Addressing Operations: PORTaddr = (DX)

(PORT)  (AX)

Content of AX is moved to port

whose address is specified by DX
14 register.
 8086 Microprocessor
Addressing Modes Group IV : Relative Addressing
mode

1. Register Addressing

2. Immediate Addressing

3. Direct Addressing In this addressing mode, the effective address of

a program instruction is specified relative to
4. Register Indirect Addressing Instruction Pointer (IP) by an 8-bit signed
displacement.
5. Based Addressing
Example: JZ 0AH
6. Indexed Addressing
Operations:
7. Based Index Addressing

8. String Addressing 000AH  0AH (sign extend)

9. Direct I/O port Addressing If ZF = 1, then

10. Indirect I/O port Addressing EA = (IP) + 000AH

BA = (CS) x 1016
11. Relative Addressing MA = BA + EA

12. Implied Addressing If ZF = 1, then the program control jumps to

new address calculated above.

If ZF = 0, then next instruction of the

program is executed.
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 8086 Microprocessor Group IV : Implied Addressing

Addressing Modes mode

1. Register Addressing

2. Immediate Addressing

3. Direct Addressing

4. Register Indirect Addressing

5. Based Addressing

6. Indexed Addressing
Instructions using this mode have no operands.
The instruction itself will specify the data to be
7. Based Index Addressing
operated by the instruction.
8. String Addressing
Example: CLC
9. Direct I/O port Addressing
This clears the carry flag to zero.
10. Indirect I/O port Addressing

11. Relative Addressing

12. Implied Addressing

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