CSIT 222 & Microprocessor Lab Final
CSIT 222 & Microprocessor Lab Final
CSIT 222 & Microprocessor Lab Final
Spring Exam
Name: Md. Abdul Khaled saifullah
Features of 8086
The most prominent features of a 8086 microprocessor are as follows −
It has an instruction queue, which is capable of storing six instruction bytes
from the memory resulting in faster processing.
It was the first 16-bit processor having 16-bit ALU, 16-bit registers, internal
data bus, and 16-bit external data bus resulting in faster processing.
It is available in 3 versions based on the frequency of operation −
o 8086 → 5MHz
o 8086-2 → 8MHz
o (c)8086-1 → 10 MHz
It uses two stages of pipelining, i.e. Fetch Stage and Execute Stage, which
improves performance.
Fetch stage can prefetch up to 6 bytes of instructions and stores them in the
queue.
Execute stage executes these instructions.
It has 256 vectored interrupts.
It consists of 29,000 transistors.
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Address Bus − 8085 has 16-bit address bus while 8086 has 20-bit address
bus.
Memory − 8085 can access up to 64Kb, whereas 8086 can access up to 1
Mb of memory.
Instruction − 8085 doesn’t have an instruction queue, whereas 8086 has an
instruction queue.
Pipelining − 8085 doesn’t support a pipelined architecture while 8086
supports a pipelined architecture.
I/O − 8085 can address 2^8 = 256 I/O's, whereas 8086 can access 2^16 =
65,536 I/O's.
Cost − The cost of 8085 is low whereas that of 8086 is high.
Architecture of 8086
The following diagram depicts the architecture of a 8086 Microprocessor −
EU (Execution Unit)
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Execution unit gives instructions to BIU stating from where to fetch the data and
then decode and execute those instructions. Its function is to control operations on
data using the instruction decoder & ALU. EU has no direct connection with
system buses as shown in the above figure, it performs operations over data
through BIU.
Let us now discuss the functional parts of 8086 microprocessors.
ALU
It handles all arithmetic and logical operations, like +, −, ×, /, OR, AND, NOT
operations.
Flag Register
It is a 16-bit register that behaves like a flip-flop, i.e. it changes its status
according to the result stored in the accumulator. It has 9 flags and they are
divided into 2 groups − Conditional Flags and Control Flags.
Conditional Flags
It represents the result of the last arithmetic or logical instruction executed.
Following is the list of conditional flags −
Carry flag − This flag indicates an overflow condition for arithmetic
operations.
Auxiliary flag − When an operation is performed at ALU, it results in a
carry/barrow from lower nibble (i.e. D0 – D3) to upper nibble (i.e. D4 –
D7), then this flag is set, i.e. carry given by D3 bit to D4 is AF flag. The
processor uses this flag to perform binary to BCD conversion.
Parity flag − This flag is used to indicate the parity of the result, i.e. when
the lower order 8-bits of the result contains even number of 1’s, then the
Parity Flag is set. For odd number of 1’s, the Parity Flag is reset.
Zero flag − This flag is set to 1 when the result of arithmetic or logical
operation is zero else it is set to 0.
Sign flag − This flag holds the sign of the result, i.e. when the result of the
operation is negative, then the sign flag is set to 1 else set to 0.
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Overflow flag − This flag represents the result when the system capacity is
exceeded.
Control Flags
Control flags controls the operations of the execution unit. Following is the list of
control flags −
Trap flag − It is used for single step control and allows the user to execute
one instruction at a time for debugging. If it is set, then the program can be
run in a single step mode.
Interrupt flag − It is an interrupt enable/disable flag, i.e. used to
allow/prohibit the interruption of a program. It is set to 1 for interrupt
enabled condition and set to 0 for interrupt disabled condition.
Direction flag − It is used in string operation. As the name suggests when it
is set then string bytes are accessed from the higher memory address to the
lower memory address and vice-a-versa.
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