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Microprocessor is a
Soft Skills program-controlled device,
Communication Skills which fetches the
Leadership Skills instructions from memory,
.........More decodes and executes the
instructions. Most Micro
Processor are single- chip
devices.

What are the flags in


8086?
In 8086 Carry flag, Parity
flag, Auxiliary carry flag,
Zero flag, Overflow flag,
Trace flag, Interrupt flag,
Direction flag, and Sign
flag.

Why crystal is a
preferred clock source?
Because of high stability,
large Q (Quality Factor) &
the frequency that doesnt
drift with aging. Crystal is
used as a clock source
most of the times.

In 8085 which is called


as High order / Low
order Register?
Flag is called as Low order
register & Accumulator is
called as High order
Register.

What is Tri-state logic?


Three Logic Levels are used and they are High, Low, High impedance
state. The high and low are normal logic levels & high impedance state
is electrical open circuit conditions. Tri-state logic has a third line
called enable line.

What happens when HLT instruction is executed in processor?


The Micro Processor enters into Halt-State and the buses are tri-
stated.

Which Stack is used in 8085?


LIFO (Last In First Out) stack is used in 8085.In this type of Stack the
last stored information can be retrieved first
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What is Program counter?


Program counter holds the address of either the first byte of the next
instruction to be fetched for execution or the address of the next byte
of a multi byte instruction, which has not been completely fetched. In
both the cases it gets incremented automatically one by one as the
instruction bytes get fetched. Also Program register keeps the address
of the next instruction.

What are the various registers in 8085?


Accumulator register, Temporary register, Instruction register, Stack
Pointer, Program Counter are the various registers in 8085

What is 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th generation processor?


The processor made of PMOS / NMOS / HMOS / HCMOS technology
is called 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th generation processor, and it is made up
of 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 bits.

Name the processor lines of two major manufacturers?


High-end: Intel - Pentium (II, III, 4), AMD - Athlon. Low-end: Intel -
Celeron, AMD - Duron. 64-bit: Intel - Itanium 2, AMD - Opteron.

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