3 The Program and Data Addressing Modes

The AVR® Enhanced RISC microcontroller supports powerful and efficient addressing modes for access to the program memory (Flash) and Data memory (SRAM, Register file, I/O Memory, and Extended I/O Memory). This section describes the various addressing modes supported by the AVR architecture. In the following figures, OP means the operation code part of the instruction word. To simplify, not all figures show the exact location of the addressing bits. To generalize, the abstract terms RAMEND and FLASHEND have been used to represent the highest location in data and program space, respectively.