PIC programming in Assembly

Question

I went through an assembly program of the PIC16F88 downloaded from microchip and saw something that I have ever seen before

; eeprom definitions

    org 0x2100
    de  LOW(IREF_ZERO), HIGH(IREF_ZERO)
    de  LOW(MAX_BATTERY_VOLTAGE), HIGH(MAX_BATTERY_VOLTAGE)

********End of the program****

The de does not appear in the set of the instruction the PIC, what does the instructioin de do in the program ?

Answer 1

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.