Addressing Modes

in
8051 MC
 Addressing Mode MC 8051
Method of specifying the data to be operated by the instruction

CPU can access the data in various ways.

-- data could be in reg./Memory/immediate value.

Is a way the MC to access data / operand from internal

memory /external memory (or)Register specific Ports.

The use of efficient modes of a program (addressing

mode) will increase the processing speed of CPU as well
as processing time can be shortened.
Types of Addressing Modes

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Type of Addressing Mode MC 8051
 1. Register Addressing mode
- Instruction will specify the name of the Reg. in which
data is available

This addressing instruction involves information transfer between

registers (at least one of the R0-R7 register involved)
i) Source & Destination reg.’s match in Size:
Eg: MOV A, R0 MOV R2, A
ADD A, R5
Eg: MOV R4, R5 (Invalid Instruction)
ii) Size of Source & Destination will vary:
Eg: MOV DPTR, A (Error) MOV DPTR,
 1. Register Addressing mode
Example:
 ADD A, R7 ; add content of A with the
content of R7
 MOV R0,#00 ; move data 00 to the register R0
 DJNZ R3, LOOP ; Decrement content of R3 and
Jump if Not
LOOP
 MOV R0, A ; The instruction transfers the
 2. Direct Addressing mode
The Address of the data is directly specified in the
instruction
The entire 128 bytes of RAM can be accessed with memory locations 30H to 7FH
Eg:

MOV R0, 40H MOV R2, #5

MOV A, 7 R2=05H
MOV R4, 7FH
OR MOV B, 2
MOV 40H, A
MOV A, R7 (OR) MOV A, 7
MOV 4, 2 (OR) MOV R4, R2

Eg:
 MOV A, P3 ; Transfer the contents of Port 3 to the
accumulator
 MOV A, 020H ; Transfer the contents of RAM location 20H to the
accumulator
 MOV P1, AA H ; Transfer the contents of A to Port 1
 MOV 20H, 40H ; Transfer the contents of the address 40H to the address
Addressable memory used by direct addressing mode
from 00 to 7F and also address specified by special register

Valid memory Address for Direct

Addressing Mode

P1(80H),
P1(90H),
P2(A0H),
P3(B0H) &
PSW(D0H)
PSW(D0H)
 3. Register Indirect Addressing mode
 A register is used to hold the effective address of the operand.
 This register, which holds the address, is called the
Pointer register and is said to point to
the operand.
 Only registers R0, R1 and DPTR can be used as pointer
registers.
 R0 and R1 registers can hold an 8-bit address where as
DPTR can hold a 16-bit address.
DPTR is useful in accessing operands which are
in the
external
memory.
 3. Indirect Addressing mode (cont’d)
Examples:
MOV @ R0, A ;Store the content of accumulator into the memory location pointed
to by the contents of register R0. R0 could have an 8-bit
address, such as 60H.
Eg:
MOV P1, #0xFF H Let P1: 0000 0100b (OR) 04 H
MOV A, P1 A = 04H
MOV R0, # 050H R0 = 50 H
MOV @R0, A Add. of Memory
0050 H = ------
MOV A, @R0 A = ---H

MOV A, @R0 ; move the contents of RAM at location designated by R0 into

accumulator A
MOVX A, @ DPTR ; Transfer the contents from the memory location pointed to by
DPTR into the accumulator.
DPTR could have a 16-bit address, such as 1234 H.

INC @R1 add one into the content designated by the R1

Example MOV A, #55H A= 55h
MOV R0, 40H R0 40H= ( xx )
MOV @R0, A 40H = --- H
INC R0 R0 = 41 H

MOV @R0, A 41 H = ---H

INC R0 R0 = 42H

MOV @R0,A 42H = ----H

INC R0 R0 = 43H
MOV @R0, A 43 H= ----H
Advantages of reg. Indirect addressing Mode:
Looping is most efficient & Block data transfer
Limitations: need to access the external RAM
3. Indirect Addressing mode (cont’d)
 4. Immediate Addressing mode
 This mode of addressing uses either an 8- or 16-bit constant value as
t he source operand
 This constant is specified in the instruction, rather than in a register
or a memory location
 The destination register should hold the same data size which is
specified by the source operand

Examples:

ADD A, # 030H ;Add 8-bit value of 30H to the accumulator register

(which is an 8-bit register).

MOV DPTR, #0FE00 H ;Move 16-bit data constant FE00H into the
16-bit Data Pointer Register.
 4. Immediate Addressing mode (cont’d)
Examples:

MOV A, # A0H ; data A0H transfer to the A

ADD A, # 4EH ; add the contents of A with the data 4E H
& store in Acc. A
CJNE A, # 20H, LOOP ; compare the data 20H with content
of Acc (A),
jump to LOOP if the
value not equal to zero.
5. Indexed Addressing mode
On-Chip ROM access
The Indexed addressing is useful when there is a
need to retrieve data from a look-up table

A 16-bit register (data pointer/program counter –

DPTR/PC) holds the base address and the accumulator
holds an 8-bit displacement or index value

The sum of these two registers forms the effective address for a
JMP or MOVC instruction
 Indexed Addressing mode (cont’d)
Example:

MOV A, #08H ; Offset from table start

MOV DPTR, #01F00H ; Table start address

MOVC A, @ A+DPTR ; Gets target value from the table

start address + offset and puts it in
A.
(Contents of A are added to the 16 bit reg. DPTR to form the 16 bit
address of need data )
(A) { (A=00) + (Add. Of content) }

After the execution of the above instructions, the program will branch to address
1F08H (1F00H+08H) and transfer into the accumulator the data byte retrieved
 ORG 0000
MOV DPTR, #200H
CLR A
MOVC A, @A+DPTR ORG 0200H
MOV R0,A
MY DATA: DB “ SLR”
INC DPTR END.
CLR A
MOVC A,@A+DPTR
MOV R1, A

INCR DPTR
CLR A
MOVC A,@A+DPTR
MOV R2, A
HERE:
SJMP HERE
Program to understand the concept of LOOK –UP table with INDEXED ADDRESSING MODE

ORG 0000
MOV DPTR, #300H MEMORY 307CONTENTS
LOCATIONS IN
MOV A, #0FFH ROM
MOV P1, A 300 00
BACK: 301 01
MOV A, P1 302 04
MOVC A, @A+DPTR 303 09
MOV P2 ,A 304 10 Equivalent to 16
SJMP BACK 305 19 Equivalent to 25
306 24 Equivalent to 36

ORG 300H 307 31 Equivalent to 49

308 40 Equivalent to 64
SQR_Table: DB 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81
309 51 Equivalent to 81
END.
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