LD (8-bit)

This is an article about the GB-Z80 CPU.

Opcodes:

Arithmetic and logical: ADD - ADD (16-bit) including LD HL,SP+nn - ADC - AND - CP - CPL - DAA - DEC - DEC and INC (16-bit) - INC - SBC - SUB - OR - XOR
Conditional: CALL - JP - JR - RET
Load: LD (8-bit) - LD (16-bit)
Extended Set: BIT - RES - RL - RLC - RR - RRC - SET - SLA - SRA - SRL - SWAP

Load (8-bit)

This instructions move the contents of a register or memory location into a destination register or memory location. These commands do not affect any CPU flags, and they require 1 machine cycle to complete (Plus 1 machine cycle if (HL) is used as a source or destination).

The op-codes for this group are encoded as follows:

 01dddsss
   | || |
   | |+-+- Source Register
   +-+---- Destination Register
 
 Where 'd' and 's' are values from the following:
 
 000: B
 001: C
 010: D
 011: E
 100: H
 101: L
 110: (HL)
 111: A

Example: LD B,L would be encoded as 01000101 represented in hexadecimal as $45.

NOTE: LD (HL),(HL) does not exist, that instruction ($76) executes the HALT instruction.

8-bit Immediate Load

These instructions allow a constant value to be loaded from the program into a register of choice. These commands do not affect any CPU flags, and they require 2 machine cycles to complete.

 00ddd110 nnnnnnnn
   | |    |      |
   | |    +------+- Operand
   +-+------------- Destination Register
 
 Where 'n' is the 8-bit immediate, and 'd' is a value from the following:
 
 000: B
 001: C
 010: D
 011: E
 100: H
 101: L
 110: (HL)
 111: A

Example: LD H, $A6 would be encoded as 00100110 10100110 represented in hexadecimal as $26 $A6