CSIS 402 : COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
& SYSTEM PROGRAMMING
ADDRESSING MODES (II)
LECTURE 6 Dr. Sarah Azzam
Slides Based on Lecture Slides by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amr Talaat
DATA ADDRESSING MODES
The data addressing modes are as follows:
Register Addressing
Immediate Addressing
Direct Data Addressing
Register Indirect Addressing
Base-Plus-Index Addressing
Register Relative Addressing
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REGISTER INDIRECT ADDRESSING
❑ Allows data to be addressed at any memory location through an offset
address held in any of the following registers: BP, BX, DI, and SI.
❑ In addition, 80386 and above allow register indirect addressing with any
extended register except ESP.
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REGISTER INDIRECT ADDRESSING Little Indian
Convention
MOV AX, [BX]
BX=1000H, DS=0100H
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REGISTER INDIRECT ADDRESSING
❑ The data segment is used by default with register indirect addressing or
any other mode that uses BX, DI, or SI to address memory.
❑ If the BP register addresses memory, the stack segment is used by default.
these settings are considered the default for these four index and base registers
❑ For the 80386 and above,
EBP addresses memory in the stack segment by default.
EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, EDI, and ESI address memory in the data segment by
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BASE-PLUS-INDEX ADDRESSING
❑ Similar to indirect addressing because it indirectly addresses memory data.
❑ The base register often holds the beginning location of a memory array.
the index register holds the relative position of an element in the array
whenever BP addresses memory data, both the stack segment register and BP generate
the effective address
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BASE-PLUS-INDEX ADDRESSING
An example of the Base-Plus-Index addressing modes.
Here an element (DI) of an array (BX) is addressed.
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BASE-PLUS-INDEX ADDRESSING
Locating Data with Base-Plus-Index Addressing
MOV DX, [BX+DI]
o The Intel assembler requires this addressing mode appear as [BX][DI] instead of
[BX + DI].
o The MOV DX,[BX + DI] instruction is MOV DX,[BX][DI] for a program written for
the Intel ASM assembler.
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BASE-PLUS-INDEX ADDRESSING
Little Indian
Convention
MOV DX, [BX+DI]
BX=1000H, DS=0100H, DI=0010H
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REGISTER RELATIVE ADDRESSING
❑ Similar to base-plus-index addressing and displacement addressing.
data in a segment of memory are addressed by adding the
displacement to the contents of a base or an index register (BP, BX, DI,
or SI).
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REGISTER RELATIVE ADDRESSING
MOV AX, [BX+1000H]
BX=0100H, DS=0200H
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BASE RELATIVE-PLUS-INDEX ADDRESSING
❑ Least-used addressing mode.
❑ The following figure shows how data are MOV AX, [BX+SI+100H]
referenced if the instruction executed by
the microprocessor is MOV AX,[BX + SI +
DS=1000H
100H].
displacement of 100H adds to BX and SI
to form the offset address within the data
segment.
❑ This addressing mode is too complex for
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BASE RELATIVE-PLUS-INDEX ADDRESSING
❑ Base Relative Plus-Index addressing modes used to access a file that contains
multiple records (REC).
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SCALED INDEX ADDRESSING
❑ Unique to 80386 - Core2 microprocessors.
uses two 32-bit registers (a base register and an index register) to access
the memory.
❑ The second register (index) is multiplied by a scaling factor.
the scaling factor can be 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x
Examples of scaled-index instructions.
MOV AX,[ EBX + 2*ECX]
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MOV [4 * ECX ],EDX
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REFERENCE TEXTBOOK
[1] “80X86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers: Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing”
by Muhammad Ali Mazidi , Janice Mazidi Gillispie and Janice Gillispie Mazidi
[2] “The Intel microprocessors 8086/8088, 80186/80188, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro
processor, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, and Core2 with 64-bit extensions: architecture, programming,
and interfacing” by Barry B. Brey”
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