Processor Fundamentals Memory Addressing Techniques Learning Objectives Explain

Processor Fundamentals Memory Addressing Techniques

Learning Objectives Explain the concepts of direct, indexed, relative addressing and immediate addressing of memory when referring to low-level languages.

Memory Addressing Techniques 1. Direct Addressing 2. Indirect Addressing 3. Indexed Addressing 4. Relative Addressing 5. Immediate Addressing

1. Direct Addressing

Direct Addressing Means that the value in the address part of a machine code instruction is the address of the data. Simple to use but does not allow access to all memory addresses as there are memory addresses larger than can be held in the address part of an instruction. n e. g. A 32 -bit memory location may use 12 bits for the instruction code and 20 bits for the address of the data. This would allow for 2^12 (= 4096) instruction codes and 2^20 (= 1 048 576) memory addresses. However, a computer using 32 -bit memory locations will have 2^32 (= 4 294 967 296) memory addresses. So direct addressing does not allow reference to all addresses e. g. for a computer using 32 -bit memory locations, addresses from 2^20 – 2^32 cannot be referred to.

Assembly Language Instructions Instruction Op Code LDD Operand Explanation <address> Load using direct addressing

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDD 117 Accumulator 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 11001000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDD 117 Accumulator 11001000 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 11001000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

2. Indirect Addressing

Indirect Addressing Means that the value in the address part of a machine code instruction is the address of the data.

Why use indirect addressing? Allows more memory to be accessed than direct addressing as the full size of register is used for an address. n If this value points to a location which holds nothing but an address then 2^32 locations in memory can be addressed.

Assembly Language Instructions Instruction Op Code Operand Explanation LDD <address> Load using direct addressing LDI <address> Load using indirect addressing

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDI 117 Accumulator 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 11001000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDI 117 Accumulator 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 11001000 = 200 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDI 117 Accumulator 11001111 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 11001000 = 200 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

3. Indexed Addressing

Indexed Addressing Index Register (IR) n A special register which holds an integer value, which is added to the base address in the instruction currently in the CIR, to give a new effective address of the data.

Indexed Addressing can be used once during one Fetch-Decode-Execute-Reset Cycle: To reach a particular element in an array or field in a record. n n IR = Offset of the required element or field from the start of the array or record. Instruction address = Address of the start of the array or record. Address 100 101 102 103 104 105 Data: …. .

Assembly Language Instructions Instruction Op Code Operand Explanation LDD <address> Load using direct addressing LDI <address> Load using indirect addressing LDX <address> Load using indexed addressing

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDX 117 Accumulator Index Register 00000011 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 01110000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDX 117 Accumulator Index Register 00000011 = 3 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 01110000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDX 117 + 3 = 120 Accumulator Index Register 00000011 = 3 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 01110000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Assembly Language Instructions Main memory LDX 117 + 3 = 120 Accumulator 11011100 Index Register 00000011 = 3 115 116 117 118 11011111 11011011 01110000 11011110 119 120 121 122 ~ 200 01011111 11011100 00011111 11000111 ~ 11001111

Indexed Addressing can be used repeatedly To allow a number of fields in contiguous records or contiguous elements in an array to be accessed by incrementing the Index Register (IR) between each successive access instruction.

Indexed Addressing e. g. to add 5 memory locations Instr. ADD 100 IR: 0 Address 100 101 102 103 104 Data: …. .

Indexed Addressing e. g. to add 5 memory locations Instr. ADD 100 IR: 1 Address 100 101 102 103 104 Data: …. .

Indexed Addressing e. g. to add 5 memory locations Instr. ADD 100 IR: 2 Address 100 101 102 103 104 Data: …. .

Indexed Addressing e. g. to add 5 memory locations Instr. ADD 100 IR: 3 Address 100 101 102 103 104 Data: …. .

Indexed Addressing e. g. to add 5 memory locations Number of memory locations required – 1 = 5 – 1 = 4 Address 100 101 102 103 104 Instr. ADD 100 IR: 4 STOP Data: …. .

Why use Indexed Addressing? Why not do something similar to the highlevel instruction? New. Address = Original. Address + Offset Add New. Address n Doing it this way would involve: Reserving two memory addresses: n Address & Offset. 8 Fetch-Decode-Execute-Reset cycles: n Set the Original. Address, set the Offset, load the Original. Address, add Offset, store the New. Address, access the contents of this “indirect” New. Address, load offset, check if offset is < or > than a specified condition (number of elements required) and either loop back or stop.

Why use Indexed Addressing? Indexed addressing avoids this: 1. 2. 3. 4. n Set the IR = 0 Access (Address of 1 st element + IR) Increment IR by 1 Test if IR = (Number of elements required – 1) otherwise loop back to step 2. This only involves only 4 Fetch-Decode-Execute. Reset cycles and one register (IR). Note the IR is in the processor, not memory so no memory locations are used in indexed addressing.

Why use Indexed Addressing? This means that the original access instruction as written in the code does not need to be modified. n Also avoids 4 additional cycles and using 2 memory locations. Note the IR is in the processor, not memory so no memory locations are used in indexed addressing.

Why use Indexed Addressing? Note for fields in a record then: n Set the IR = (No of records required – 1)*offset st record n Address in access instruction = Address of 1 n Decrement IR by offset.

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4. Relative Addressing

Relative Addressing Address in the instruction is the displacement from the current instruction’s address + 1 (due to the PC being incremented) already in the PC. n n New “effective” = contents of PC + operand of instruction in CIR The program knows where the line is relative to the current instruction but not the true address. Therefore allows for relocatable code (code that be moved anywhere without jump instructions etc… being affected).

Relative Addressing Can be used to Jump to or access data from an address relative to the current instruction. n Relative Jump Instruction: The address in the instruction copied to MAR and then added to the value in the PC. n With the new “effective” address now in PC. e. g. The current instruction is in address 3000 and is Jump *45*, using relative addressing this means that the line wants to jump to an instruction 45 lines ahead of the next instruction (due to the PC being automatically incremented by 1 during any Fetch-Decode-Execute-Reset Cycle this means 46 lines ahead of the current instruction). The PC will have been incremented to 3001 (ready for the next instruction) so the PC is changed to 3001+45 = 3046. The next cycle retrieves the next instruction from there. n Access data in a relative address: The address in the instruction copied to MAR and the contents of the PC added to it. n New “effective” address now in MAR.

Relative Vs Indexed Addressing Similar as they both involve changing an address by addition but: n Indexed Addressing: Changes the address in the instruction in the CIR. n Address limited to the size of the address field in the CIR, as in direct addressing. Effective address = address in the CIR + contents of IR n Relative Addressing: Changes the address in the MAR and for Jump instructions the PC as well, not the address in the instruction in the CIR. n Address can be full value of the register as modified effective address is on its own in the PC or MAR. Effective address = current instruction’s address + 1 + value in instruction

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5. Immediate Addressing

Immediate Addressing Immediate addressing is so-named because the value to be stored in memory immediately follows the operation code in memory. n n e. g. “Load 20” where 20 refers to a value and is loaded directly into the accumulator. You could argue that there is no address being used at all, but there you go! Immediate addressing is very fast since the value to be loaded is included in the instruction. However, since the value to be loaded is fixed at compile -time it is not very flexible.

Immediate Addressing Advantage: n No memory reference other than instruction fetch is required to obtain the data to be used. Disadvantage: n The size of the number is limited to the size of the address field, which most instruction sets is small compared to word length. n This is similar to the problem “direct addressing” has.

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Plenary State the 5 methods of memory addressing and explain why they are used.