Conditional and Unconditional Jump Instructions in 8085 Microprocessor

In 8085 Instruction set,there are a set of jump instructions, which can transfer program control to a certain memory location. So after these branching mnemonics we shall have to mention 16-bit target address of the location. These jump instructions can be divided into two categories– 

• Unconditional jump instructions and

• Conditional jump instructions

Under unconditional jump instructions there is only one mnemonic i.e. JUMP. But under conditional Jump instructions we are having 8 different mnemonics. We know that there are 5 flag bits in 8085 Flag register. They are S, Z,P, Cy, AC. Out of them only on AC flag bit, there is no jump instruction. But for rest 4 flag bits, we are having 8 conditional jump instructions depending upon their 1 or 0 i.e. TRUE and FALSE values respectively. Here is the list of all branching instructions in the following table – 

The following table shows the list of Branching instructions with their meanings.