Instruction type PUSH rp in 8085 Microprocessor

In 8085 Instruction set, PUSH rp instruction stores contents of register pair rp by pushing it into two locations above the top of the stack. rp stands for one of the following register pairs.

rp = BC, DE, HL, or PSW

As rp can have any of the four values, there are four opcodes for this type of instruction. It occupies only 1-Byte in memory.

In the above mention Opcodes, 2-bits are occupied to mention the register pair. 2-bits can have 4 combinations. So 4 register pairs can be mentioned with POP. As mentioned earlier, they are BC, DE, HL and AF or PSW.

Note with LXI instruction, we are having 4 possible register pairs can be used i.e. BC, DE, HL and SP. So at the same time we can’t have SP and PSW applicable with the same instruction.

Let us consider PUSH B as an example instruction of this category. It is a 1-Byte instruction.

The result of execution of this instruction is shown below with an example.

The timing diagram against this instruction PUSH B execution is as follows −

Summary − So this instruction PUSH B requires 1-Byte, 3-Machine Cycles (Opcode Fetch, Memory Write, Memory Write) and 12 T-States for execution as shown in the timing diagram.