Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Relative Addressing
• The implicitly referenced
register is the program counter
(PC)
• The next instruction address is
added to the address field to
produce the EA.
• The effective address of the
operand is obtained by adding
the content of the program
counter (PC) with the address
part of the instruction.
EA = A + (PC)
Base-Register Addressing
Indexing Addressing
Number of Register
Number of
addressing versus
modes operands
memory
Number of Address
Address range
register sets granularity
Variable-Length Instructions
• Variations can be provided efficiently and compactly
• Increases the complexity of the processor