de is an assembler directive to declare an EEPROM data byte. org is also a directive.

You can find a full list of assembler directives in the MPASM manual (see 4.17 for de).

In general all assemblers will have directives of this kind, that don't map to machine language instructions, but the syntax varies between assemblers.

de is an assembler directive to declare an EEPROM data byte. org is also a directive.

You can find a full list of assembler directives in the MPASM manual (see 4.17 for de).

In general all assemblers will have directives of this kind, that don't map to machine language instructions, but the syntax varies between assemblers.