14/07/2014
Data transfering OPcodes
Opcode Operand Description
Copy from source to destination
MOV Rd, Rs This instruction copies the contents of the source
M, Rs register into the destination register; the contents of
Rd, M the source register are not altered. If one of the operands is a
memory location, its location is specified by the contents of
the HL registers.
Example: MOV B, C or MOV B, M
Move immediate 8-bit
MVI Rd, data The 8-bit data is stored in the destination register or
M, data memory. If the operand is a memory location, its location is
specified by the contents of the HL registers.
Example: MVI B, 57H or MVI M, 57H
Load accumulator
LDA 16-bit address The contents of a memory location, specified by a
16-bit address in the operand, are copied to the accumulator.
The contents of the source are not altered.
Example: LDA 2034H
Load accumulator indirect
LDAX B/D Reg. pair The contents of the designated register pair point to a memory
location. This instruction copies the contents of that memory
location into the accumulator. The contents of either the
register pair or the memory location are not altered.
Example: LDAX B
Load register pair immediate
LXI Reg. pair, 16-bit data The instruction loads 16-bit data in the register pair
designated in the operand.
Example: LXI H, 2034H or LXI H, XYZ
Load H and L registers direct
LHLD 16-bit address The instruction copies the contents of the memory location
pointed out by the 16-bit address into register L and copies
the contents of the next memory location into register H. The
contents of source memory locations are not altered.
Example: LHLD 2040H
Store accumulator direct
STA 16-bit address The contents of the accumulator are copied into the memory
location specified by the operand. This is a 3-byte instruction,
the second byte specifies the low-order address and the third
byte specifies the high-order address.
Example: STA 4350H
Store accumulator indirect
STAX Reg. pair The contents of the accumulator are copied into the memory
location specified by the contents of the operand (register
pair). The contents of the accumulator are not altered.
Example: STAX B
Store H and L registers direct
SHLD 16-bit address The contents of register L are stored into the memory location
specified by the 16-bit address in the operand and the contents
of H register are stored into the next memory location by
incrementing the operand. The contents of registers HL are
not altered. This is a 3-byte instruction, the second byte
specifies the low-order address and the third byte specifies the
high-order address.
Example: SHLD 2470H
Exchange H and L with D and E
XCHG none The contents of register H are exchanged with the contents of
register D, and the contents of register L are exchanged with
the contents of register E.
Example: XCHG
Copy H and L registers to the stack pointer
SPHL none The instruction loads the contents of the H and L registers into
the stack pointer register, the contents of the H register
provide the high-order address and the contents of the L
register provide the low-order address. The contents of the H
and L registers are not altered.
Example: SPHL
Exchange H and L with top of stack
XTHL none The contents of the L register are exchanged with the stack
location pointed out by the contents of the stack pointer
register. The contents of the H register are exchanged with
the next stack location (SP+1); however, the contents of the
stack pointer register are not altered.
Example: XTHL
Push register pair onto stack
PUSH Reg. pair The contents of the register pair designated in the operand are
copied onto the stack in the following sequence. The stack
pointer register is decremented and the contents of the high-
order register (B, D, H, A) are copied into that location. The
stack pointer register is decremented again and the contents of
the low-order register (C, E, L, flags) are copied to that
location.
Example: PUSH B or PUSH A
Pop off stack to register pair
POP Reg. pair The contents of the memory location pointed out by the stack
pointer register are copied to the low-order register (C, E, L,
status flags) of the operand. The stack pointer is incremented
by 1 and the contents of that memory location are copied to
the high-order register (B, D, H, A) of the operand. The stack
pointer register is again incremented by 1.
Example: POP H or POP A
Output data from accumulator to a port with 8-bit address
OUT 8-bit port address The contents of the accumulator are copied into the I/O port
specified by the operand.
Example: OUT F8H
Input data to accumulator from a port with 8-bit address
IN 8-bit port address The contents of the input port designated in the operand are
read and loaded into the accumulator.
Example: IN 8CH
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