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DI is the Index register in Data segment(16-bit, 64 KB) .Destination Index (DI) is a 16-bit register. DI is used for indexed, based indexed and register indirect addressing, as well as a destination data address in string manipulation instructions.
A segment register is a register that contains the base address, or something related to the base address, of a region of memory. In the 8086/8088, the four segment registers are multiplied by 16 and added to the effective address to form the physical address. An index register, on the other hand, is a register that contains an address that is added to another address to form the effective address. In the 8086/8088, four address components are involved; 1.) the displacement contained within the instruction, often called the offset, 2.) a base address specified by the r/m field, often the BP or BX register, 3.) an index address specified by the r/m field, often the SI or DI register, and 4.) the segment address specified by context or by a segment override prefix, often the CS, DS, SS, or ES register.
The various 16-bit registers on the 8085 are BC, DE, HL, SP, PC.
The source index (SI) register is required for some string (character) operations. In this context the SI is associated with the DS register. The destination index (DI) register is also required for some string operations. In this context the DI is associated with the ES register.
The SI (Source Index) and DI (Destination Index) registers are useful in repeated string operations, such as copy. The DS (Data Segment) register is paired up with SI and the ES (Extra Segment) register is paired up with DI.
There is no PC register in the 8086/8088. It is called the IP register by Intel and it stands for the Instruction Pointer. It contains the address of the current/next instruction to be executed.
8086 has four multipurpose registers. 1. AX (Accumulator Register) 2. BX (Base Register) 3. CX (Count Register) 4. DX (Data Register) By Aneeta Arshad
stack segment register
The Source Index (SI) register is used by certain string type instructions to read from memory. Typically, the instruction is "repeated" with a repeat prefix to iterate through memory until some condition is met.
there are 14 registers in 8088 micro processor. All the 14 are 16 bit registers. They are4 segment registers viz - code segment register, stack segment register, data segment register, extra segment register.general registers are - accumulator register i.e. AX, base register i.e. BX, count register i.e. CX, data register i.e. DX and stack pointer (SP), base pointer (BP).index registers are - source index(SI), destination index(DI),and the other registers are instruction pointer and flags register.
i.e.-->mov ax,2000h (in 8086)
The operand addressing modes of the 8086/8088 are ...ImmediateRegisterDirectIndirectWithin the Indirect category there is ...BaseIndexBase + IndexBase + DisplacementIndex + DisplacementBase + Index + Displacement