Instruction type RRC in 8085 Microprocessor

In 8085 Instruction set, RRC stands for “Rotate Right Accumulator”. With the help of this instruction, we can rotate the Accumulator current content to the right by 1-bit position. The following Fig. will depict the rotation operation.

In this right rotation, the least significant bit will come out from the Accumulator and will be copied to Cy bit in the flag register and also will be copied to the most significant bit position of the Accumulator. Notice that the Cy flag is not involved in the rotation, and it is only 8-bit rotation of Accumulator contents. Only Cy flag is affected by this instruction execution.

Mnemonics, Operand	Opcode(in HEX)	Bytes
RRC	0F	1

This instruction can be used in multiple following operations −

• To check the value of the least significant bit value of the Accumulator through the value of the cy bit.

• It can be used to perform division by 2. We know that Accumulator’s content will have n-bits right shift if we divide the Accumulator by 2ⁿ.

The execution of this instructions has been depicted through following examples −

Example 1

	Before	After
(A)	8AH	45H
(Cy)	Any Value	0

8AH --->    1000 1010
 0100 0101 ---> 45H (Last bit 0 is copied to Cy bit)

Address	Hex Codes	Mnemonic	Comment
2002	0F	RRC	Rotate Right Accumulator

Note that Accumulator value is halved.

Example 2

	Before	After
(A)	8BH	C5H
(Cy)	Any Value	1

8AH --->    1000 1011
 1100 0101 --->C5H (Last bit 1 is copied to Cy bit)

Address	Hex Codes	Mnemonic	Comment
2002	0F	RRC	Rotate Right Accumulator

Note that Accumulator value is not halved in this case because LS bit of Accumulator was a 1 before rotation.

The timing diagram against this instruction RRC execution is as follows −

Summary − So this instruction RRC requires 1-Byte, 1-Machine Cycle (Opcode Fetch) and 4 T-States for execution as shown in the timing diagram.