The document discusses the five addressing modes of the 8051 microcontroller: immediate, register, direct, register-indirect, and indexed addressing modes. It provides examples and explanations of each mode. Immediate addressing uses data specified in the instruction. Register addressing uses source and destination registers. Direct addressing specifies the address of the data. Register-indirect addressing uses registers to point to memory locations. Indexed addressing forms an effective address by summing a base register and accumulator register.