1] Design and develop an assembly language program to search a key element ‘X’ in a list of ‘n’ 16-bit numbers. Adopt a binary search algorithm in your program for searching.
1] Program code(lab1.asm)
.model small
.stack 10
.data
a dw 05h,10h,15h,20h,25h,30h,35h
n equ 07
key dw 10h
msg1 db 'Key found$'
msg2 db 'Key not found$'
.code
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
mov ax,key
mov cx,0
mov dx,n
add dx,dx
sub dx,1
next: cmp cx,dx
jg notfound
mov bx,dx
add bx,cx
mov si,bx
shr bx,1
jnc count
sub si,1
count: cmp ax,a[si]
je found
jl lhalf
add si,2
mov cx,si
jmp next
lhalf: sub si,2
mov dx,si
jmp next
found: mov dx,offset msg1
jmp exit
notfound: mov dx,offset msg2
exit: mov ah,09h
int 21h
mov ah,4ch
int 21h
int 3
end
