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Addressing Modes

The document discusses various addressing modes used in computer architecture to specify the operand of an instruction. It outlines twelve different addressing modes, including Implied, Stack, Immediate, Direct, Indirect, Register Direct, and Register Indirect Addressing Modes, each with a brief explanation and example. The addressing modes determine how the address field of an instruction is interpreted or modified before execution.

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Addressing Modes

The document discusses various addressing modes used in computer architecture to specify the operand of an instruction. It outlines twelve different addressing modes, including Implied, Stack, Immediate, Direct, Indirect, Register Direct, and Register Indirect Addressing Modes, each with a brief explanation and example. The addressing modes determine how the address field of an instruction is interpreted or modified before execution.

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Computer System Architecture COMP201Th

Unit: 3 Programming the Basic Computer


Lecture: 2 Addressing Modes

The term addressing modes refers to the way in which the


operand of an instruction is specified. The
addressing mode specifies a rule for interpreting or
modifying the address field of the instruction before
the operand is actually executed.

Thus, the different ways of specifying the location of an operand in an


instruction are called as addressing modes:
1.Implied/ Implicit Addressing Mode
2.Stack addressing Mode
3.Immediate Addressing Mode
4.Direct Addressing Mode
5.Indirect Addressing Mode
6.Register Direct Addressing Mode
7.Register Indirect Addressing Mode
8.Relative Addressing Mode
9.Indexed Addressing Mode
10. Base Register Addressing Mode
11. Auto-increment Addressing Mode
12. Auto-decrement Addressing Mode

Implied Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the definition of the instruction
itself specify the operands implicitly. It is also called as implicit addressing mode.
e.g.
 The instruction “ComplementAccumulator”is an
implied mode instruction (CMA).
 In a stack organized computer, zero address instructions are implied mode
instructions.
Stack Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the operand is contained at the top of
the stack.
e.g. ADD
This instruction simply pops out two symbols contained at the top of the stack. The
addition of those two operands is performed.
The result so obtained after addition is pushed again at the top of the stack.

Immediate Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the operand is specified in the
instruction explicitly. Instead of address field, an operand field is present that contains
the operand.
e.g. ADD 100 will increment the value stored in the accumulator by 10. MOV R #20
initialized register R to a constant value 20.

Direct Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the address field of the instruction
contains the effective address of the operand. Only one reference to memory is required to
fetch the operand. It is also called as absolute addressing mode.
Indirect Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the address field of the instruction
specifies the address of memory location that contains the effective address of the
operand. Two references to memory are required to fetch the operand.

Register Direct Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the operand is contained in a
register set. The address field of the instruction refers to a CPU register that contains the
operand. No reference to memory is required to fetch the operand.
Register Indirect Addressing Mode: In this addressing mode, the address field of the
instruction refers to a CPU register that contains the effective address of the operand.
Only one reference to memory is required to fetch the operand.

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