8086 Assembly Language Programming I
8086 Assembly Language Programming I
8086 Assembly Language Programming I
Need to know the functions of various registers Need to know how external memory is organized and how it is addressed to obtain instructions and data (different addressing modes) Need to know what operations (or the instruction set) are supported by the CPU. For example, powerful CPUs support floating-point operations but simple CPUs only support integer operations
C Concept L Logic thinking P Practice Concept we must learn the basic syntax, such as how a program statement is written Logic thinking programming is problem solving so we must think logically in order to derive a solution Practice write programs
The native language is machine language (using 0,1 to represent the operation) A single machine instruction can take up one or more bytes of code Assembly language is used to write the program using alphanumeric symbols (or mnemonic), eg ADD, MOV, PUSH etc. The program will then be assembled (similar to compiled) and linked into an executable program. The executable program could be .com, .exe, or .bin files
Program .asm
Assemble
link
Machine code for mov AL, 00H B4 00 (2 bytes) After assembled, the value B400 will be stored in the memory When the program is executed, then the value B400 is read from memory, decoded and carry out the task
Each instruction is represented by one assembly language statement The statement must specify which operation (opcode) is to be performed and the operands Eg ADD AX, BX ADD is the operation AX is called the destination operand BX is called the source operand The result is AX = AX + BX When writing assembly language program, you need to think in the instruction level
In c++, you can do A = (B+C)*100 In assembly language, only one instruction per statement
A=B A = A+C A = A*100 ; only one instruction - MOVE ; only one instruction - ADD ; only one instruction - Multiply
General format for an assembly language statement Label Instruction Comment Start: Mov AX, BX ; copy BX into AX
Start is a user defined name and you only put in a label in your statement when necessary!!!! The symbol : is used to indicate that it is a label
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In 8086, memory is divided into segments Only 4 64K-byte segments are active and these are: code, stack, data, and extra
When you write your assembly language program for an 8086, theoretically you should define the different segments!!! To access the active segments, it is via the segment register: CS (code), SS (stack), DS (data), ES (extra) So when writing assembly language program, you must make use of the proper segment register or index register when you want to access the memory
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In assembly programming, you cannot operate on two memory locations in the same instruction So you usually need to store (move) value of one location into a register and then perform your operation After the operation, you then put the result back to the memory location Therefore, one form of operation that you will use very frequent is the store (move) operation!!! And using registers!!!!!
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In C++ A = B+C ; A, B, C are variables In assembly language A,B, C representing memory locations so you cannot do A = B+C
MOV AL, B ; move value of B into AL register ADD, AL, C ; do the add AL = AL +C MOV A, AL ; put the result to A
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AX, BX, CX,and DX these are the general purpose registers but each of the registers also has special function Example
Registers are 16-bit but can be used as 2 8-bit storage Each of the 4 data registers can be used as the source or destination of an operand during an arithmetic, logic, shift, or rotate operation. In some operations, the use of the accumulator is assumed, eg in I/O mapped input and output operations
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In based addressing mode, base register BX is used as a pointer to an operand in the current data segment. CX is used as a counter in some instructions, eg. CL contains the count of the number of bits by which the contents of the operand must be rotated or shifted by multiple-bit rotate DX, data register, is used in all multiplication and division, it also contains an input/output port address for some types of input/output operations
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Stack is used as a temporary storage Data can be stored by the PUSH instruction and extracted by the POP instruction Stack is accessed via the SP (Stack Pointer) and BP (Base Pointer) The BP contains an offset address in the current stack segment. This offset address is employed when using the based addressing mode and is commonly used by instructions in a subroutine that reference parameters that were passed by using the stack
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Source index register (SI) and Destination index register (DI) are used to hold offset addresses for use in indexed addressing of operands in memory When indexed type of addressing is used, then SI refers to the current data segment and DI refers to the current extra segment The index registers can also be used as source or destination registers in arithmetic and logical operations. But must be used in 16-bit mode
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Data can be in three forms: 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32bit (double word) Integer could be signed or unsigned and in byte-wide or word-wide For signed integer (2s complement format), the MSB is used as the sign-bit (0 for positive, 1 for negative) Signed 8-bit integer 127 to 128, For signed word 32767 to 32768 Latest microprocessors can also support 64-bit or even 128-bit data In 8086, only integer operations are supported!!!
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; indicate start of code segment ; indicate start of program AX, 0 BX, 0000H CX, 0 SI, AX DI, AX BP, AX
END ; end of file The flow of the program is usually top-down and instructions are executed one by one!!!
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In general, an assembly program must include the code segment!! Other segments, such as stack segment, data segment are not compulsory There are key words to indicate the beginning of a segment as well as the end of a segment. Just like using main(){} in C++ Programming Example DSEG segment data ; define the start of a data segment DSEG ENDS ; defines the end of a data segment Segment is the keyword DSEG is the name of the segment Similarly key words are used to define the beginning of a program, as well as the end.
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Example CSEG segment code START PROC FAR ; define the start of a program (procedure)
RET ; return START ENDP ; define the end of a procedure CSEG ends End start ; end of everything Different assembler may have different syntax for the definition of the key words !!!!! Start is just a name it could be my_prog, ABC etc
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Stacksg segment para stack . ; define the stack segment Stacksg ends Datasg segment para ; declare data inside the data segment Datasg ends Codesg segment para code Main proc far ; assume ss:stacksg, ds: datasg, cs:codesg mov ax, datasg mov ds, ax . mov ax, 4c00H int 21H Main endp Codesg ends end main
End of everything
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To declare a segment, the syntax is: segment_name SEGMENT alignment class Example Stacksg segment PARA (this statement is used in previous slide) PARA define the alignment of the segment base address, the segment with a starting addressing that is evenly Divisible by 16. But the default value is also base address divisible by 16 so the key word PARA can be ignored!
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data, code class entry. Is used to group related segments when linking. The linker automatically groups segments of the same class in memory PROC define procedures (similar to a function) inside the code segment. Each procedure must be identified by an unique name. At the end of the procedure, you must include the ENDP
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FAR is related to program execution. When you request execution of a program, the program loader uses this procedure as the entry point for the first instruction to execute. Assume to associate, or to assign, the name of a segment with a segment register In some assembler, you need to move the base address of a segment directly into the segment register!!! END ends the entire program and appears as the last statement. Usually the name of the first or only PROC designated as FAR is put after END
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If you are doing something simple then you do not need to define the segment Everything will be stored in the code segment
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start: mov DL, 0H mov CL, op1 mov AL, data step: cmp AL, op1 jc label1 sub AL, op1 inc DL jmp step label1: mov AH, DL
; compare AL and op1 ; if carry =1 jump to label1 ; AL = AL op1 ; DL = DL+1 ; jump to step
; move DL to AH
HLT ; Halt end of program data db 45 ; define a variable called data op1 db 6 ; define a variable called op1
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Emu8086 (http:// www.emu8086.com) there is a trial version but it does not support all the features such as interrupt The emu8086 consists of a tutorial and the reference for a complete instruction set Keil www.keil.com
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Data is usually stored in the data segment You can define constants, work areas (a chunk of memory ) Data can be defined in different length (8-bit, 16-bit) 8-bit then use DB 16-bit then use DW The definition for data:
[name] Dn expression ; Dn is either DB or DW Name a program that references a data item by means of a name. The name of an item is otherwise optional Dn this is called the directives. It defines length of the data Expression define the values (content) for the data
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FLDA
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Define multiple data under the same name (like an array) FLDC DB 21, 22, 23, 34 ; the data are stored in adjacent bytes
FLDC stores the first value FLDC + 1 stores the second value You can do mov AL, FLDC+3
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DUP duplicate DUP can be used to define multiple storages DB 10 DUP (?) ; defines 10 bytes not initialize DB 5 DUP (12) ; 5 data all initialized to 12 String : DB this is a test EQU this directive does not define a data item; instead, it defines a value that the assembler can use to substitute in other instructions (similar to defining a constant in C programming or using the #define ) factor EQU 12 mov CX, factor
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Assembly language should be more effective and it will take up less memory space and run faster In real-time application, the use of assembly program is required because program that is written in a high-level language probably could not respond quickly enough You can also put assembly codes into your C++ program in order to reduce the execution time!!!!
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The syntax for different microprocessor may be different but the concept is the same so once you learn the assembly programming for one microprocessor, you can easily program other kinds of system For example, programming the 8051 series is very similar to the 8086
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Function of the addressing modes is to access the operands Available modes (9 modes): register addressing, immediate addressing, direct addressing, register indirect addressing, based addressing, indexed addressing, based indexed addressing, string addressing, and port addressing Addressing modes provide different ways of computing the address of an operand
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How this can be done using assembly language programming? This is via different addressing modes!!!!
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The operand to be accessed is specified as residing in an internal register of the 8086 Eg MOV AX, BX Move (MOV) contents of BX (the source operand), to AX (the destination operand) Both operands are in the internal registers
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Source operand is part of the instruction Usually immediate operands represent constant data The operands can be either a byte or word e.g MOV AL, 15 15 is a byte wide immediate source operand Or it could be MOV AL, #15 The immediate operand is stored in program storage memory (i.e the code segment) This value is also fetched into the instruction queue in the BIU No external memory bus cycle is initiated!
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Move a byte or word between a memory location and a register the locations following the instruction opcode hold an effective memory address (EA) instead of data The address is a 16-bit offset of the storage location of the operand from the current value in the data segment register Physcial address = DS + offset The instruction set does not support a memory-to-memory transfer!
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Data is assumed to be stored in the data segment so DS is used in calculating the physical address!!! External memory bus cycle is needed to do the read Example of direct addressing: mov AL, var1 Where Var1 can be regarded as a variable
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Transfer a byte or word between a register and a memory location addressed by an index or base register
Example MOV AL, [SI] SI index register The symbol [] always refer to an indirect addressing
The effective address (EA) is stored either in a pointer register or an index register The pointer register can be either base register BX or base pointer register BP The index register can be source index register SI, or destination index register DI The default segment is either DS or ES
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Eg MOV AX, [SI] Value stored in the SI register is used as the offset address The segment register is DS in this example Meaning of the above is to move the data stored in the memory location : DS + SI to the AX register In register indirect addressing mode, the EA (effective address) is a variable and depends on the index, or base register value Eg mov [BX], CL Which segment register will be used for the above operation
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According to the memory map The result of the operation Mov [BX], CL will result in what??? If CL = 88 and BX = 1233H and DS =0H Physical address = DS + BX = 01233H
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