Complete architecture of 8086 microprocessor

Answer 1

Oh, what a lovely question! The architecture of the 8086 microprocessor is like a beautiful landscape with different parts working together harmoniously. It has a 20-bit address bus, 16-bit data bus, various registers like AX, BX, CX, and DX, and segments such as code, stack, and data. Just like painting a happy little tree, each component plays a vital role in creating a masterpiece of computational power.

Answer 2

8085 Architecture - II Written by: shankar • Edited by: KennethSleight

Published Sep 30, 2009 • Related Guides: Intel

Learn in detail about the functions and working of flags, the timing and control unit, Interrupt control and various other signals associated with it. Also learn about the Data bus and address bus present in 8085 microprocessor and how these units combine to process a data altogether.

Introduction

In the previous articles we learnt about what are microprocessors in general and the about the 8085 microprocessor in particular. We saw the various registers used in 8085 microprocessor and how they act along with Arithmetic and Logic unit to process a data. But Registers and ALU alone cannot successfully process a data and provide the result to the programmer. There are various other units which help in data transfer and addressing, Carry operation while adding or subtracting, and sometimes also to interrupt a process when necessary. Let us discuss about those units in detail.

Architecture DiagramFlags

Flags are nothing but a group of individual Flip-flops. The flags are mainly associated with arithmetic and logic operations. The flags will show either a logical (0 or 1) (i.e.) a set or reset depending on the data conditions in accumulator or various other registers. A flag is actually a latch which can hold some bits of information. It alerts the processor that some event has taken place.

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But why are they called flags?

The possible solution is from the small flags which are found on the mail boxes in America. The small flag indicates that there is a mail in the mail box. Similarly this denotes that an event has occurred in the processor.

Intel processors have a set of 5 flags.

• Carry flag
• Parity flag
• Auxiliary carry flag
• Zero flag
• Sign flag

Consider two binary numbers.

For example:

1100 0000

1000 0000

When we add the above two numbers, a carry is generated in the most significant bit. The number in the extreme right is least significant bit, while the number in extreme left is most significant bit. So a ninth bit is generated due to the carry. So how to accommodate 9th bit in an 8 bit register?

For this purpose the Carry flag is used. The carry flag is set whenever a carry is generated and reset whenever there is no carry.

But there is an auxiliary carry flag? What is the difference between the carry flag and auxiliary carry flag?

Let's discuss with an example. Consider the two numbers given below

0000 0100, 0000 0101

When we add both the numbers a carry is generated in the third bit from the least significant bit. This sets the auxiliary carry flag. When there is no carry, the auxiliary carry flag is reset.

So whenever there is a carry in the most significant bit Carry flag is set. While an auxiliary carry flag is set only when a carry is generated in bits other than the most significant bit.

Parity checks whether it's even or add parity. This flag returns a 0 if it is odd parity and returns a 1 if it is an even parity. Sometimes they are also called as parity bit which is used to check errors while data transmission is carried out.

Zero flag shows whether the output of the operation is 0 or not. If the value of Zero flag is 0 then the result of operation is not zero. If it is zero the flag returns value 1.

Sign flag shows whether the output of operation has positive sign or negative sign. A value 0 is returned for positive sign and 1 is returned for negative sign.

Instruction Register and Decoder

Instruction register is 8-bit register just like every other register of microprocessor. Consider an instruction. The instruction may be anything like adding two data's, moving a data, copying a data etc. When such an instruction is fetched from memory, it is directed to Instruction register. So the instruction registers are specifically to store the instructions that are fetched from memory.

There is an Instruction decoder which decodes the informations present in the Instruction register for further processing.

Timing and Control Unit

Timing and control unit is a very important unit as it synchronizes the registers and flow of data through various registers and other units. This unit consists of an oscillator and controller sequencer which sends control signals needed for internal and external control of data and other units.

The oscillator generates two-phase clock signals which aids in synchronizing all the registers of 8085 microprocessor.

Signals that are associated with Timing and control unit are:

Control Signals: READY, RD', WR', ALE

Status Signals: S0, S1, IO/M'

DMA Signals: HOLD, HLDA

RESET Signals: RESET IN, RESET OUT

Interrupt Control

As the name suggests this control interrupts a process. Consider that a microprocessor is executing the main program. Now whenever the interrupt signal is enabled or requested the microprocessor shifts the control from main program to process the incoming request and after the completion of request, the control goes back to the main program. For example an Input/output device may send an interrupt signal to notify that the data is ready for input. The microprocessor temporarily stops the execution of main program and transfers control to I/O device. After collecting the input data the control is transferred back to main program.

Interrupt signals present in 8085 are:

INTR

RST 7.5

RST 6.5

RST 5.5

TRAP

Of the above four interrupts TRAP is a NON-MASKABLE interrupt control and other three are maskable interrupts.

A non-maskable interrupt is an interrupt which is given the highest priority in the order of interrupts. Suppose you want an instruction to be processed immediately, then you can give the instruction as a non-maskable interrupt. Further the non-maskable interrupt cannot be disabled by programmer at any point of time.

Whereas the maskable interrupts can be disabled and enabled using EI and DI instructions. Among the maskable interrupts RST 7.5 is given the highest priority above RST 6.5 and least priority is given to INTR.

Serial I/O control

The input and output of serial data can be carried out using 2 instructions in 8085.

SID-Serial Input Data

SOD-Serial Output Data

Two more instructions are used to perform serial-parallel conversion needed for serial I/O devices.

SIM

RIM

Address buffer and Address-Data buffer

The contents of the stack pointer and program counter are loaded into the address buffer and address-data buffer. These buffers are then used to drive the external address bus and address-data bus. As the memory and I/O chips are connected to these buses, the CPU can exchange desired data to the memory and I/O chips.

The address-data buffer is not only connected to the external data bus but also to the internal data bus which consists of 8-bits. The address data buffer can both send and receive data from internal data bus.

Address bus and Data bus:

We know that 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor. So the data bus present in the microprocessor is also 8-bits wide. So 8-bits of data can be transmitted from or to the microprocessor. But 8085 processor requires 16 bit address bus as the memory addresses are 16-bit wide.

The 8 most significant bits of the address are transmitted with the help of address bus and the 8 least significant bits are transmitted with the help of multiplexed address/data bus. The eight bit data bus is multiplexed with the eight least significant bits of address bus. The address/data bus is time multiplexed. This means for few microseconds, the 8 least significant bits of address are generated, while for next few seconds the same pin generates the data. This is called Time multiplexing.

But there are situations where there is a need to transmit both data and address simultaneously. For this purpose a signal called ALE (address latch enable) is used. ALE signal holds the obtained address in its latch for a long time until the data is obtained and so when the microprocessor sends the data next time the address is also available at the output latch. This technique is called Address/Data demultiplexing.

Answer 3

Memory

Program, data and stack memories occupy the same memory space. The total addressable memory size is 1MB. As the most of the processor instructions use 16-bit pointers the processor can effectively address only 64 KB of memory. To access memory outside of 64 KB the CPU uses special segment registers to specify where the code, stack and data 64 KB segments are positioned within 1 MB of memory (see the "Registers" section below).

16-bit pointers and data are stored as:

address: low-order byte

address+1: high-order byte

32-bit addresses are stored in "segment:offset" format as:

address: low-order byte of segment

address+1: high-order byte of segment

address+2: low-order byte of offset

address+3: high-order byte of offset

Physical memory address pointed by segment:offset pair is calculated as:

address = ( * 16) +

Program memory - program can be located anywhere in memory. Jump and call instructions can be used for short jumps within currently selected 64 KB code segment, as well as for far jumps anywhere within 1 MB of memory. All conditional jump instructions can be used to jump within approximately +127 - -127 bytes from current instruction.

Data memory - the processor can access data in any one out of 4 available segments, which limits the size of accessible memory to 256 KB (if all four segments point to different 64 KB blocks). Accessing data from the Data, Code, Stack or Extra segments can be usually done by prefixing instructions with the DS:, CS:, SS: or ES: (some registers and instructions by default may use the ES or SS segments instead of DS segment).

Word data can be located at odd or even byte boundaries. The processor uses two memory accesses to read 16-bit word located at odd byte boundaries. Reading word data from even byte boundaries requires only one memory access.

Stack memory can be placed anywhere in memory. The stack can be located at odd memory addresses, but it is not recommended for performance reasons (see "Data Memory" above).

Reserved locations:

• 0000h - 03FFh are reserved for interrupt vectors. Each interrupt vector is a 32-bit pointer in format segment:offset.
• FFFF0h - FFFFFh - after RESET the processor always starts program execution at the FFFF0h address.

Interrupts

The processor has the following interrupts:

INTR is a maskable hardware interrupt. The interrupt can be enabled/disabled using STI/CLI instructions or using more complicated method of updating the FLAGS register with the help of the POPF instruction. When an interrupt occurs, the processor stores FLAGS register into stack, disables further interrupts, fetches from the bus one byte representing interrupt type, and jumps to interrupt processing routine address of which is stored in location 4 * . Interrupt processing routine should return with the IRET instruction.

NMI is a non-maskable interrupt. Interrupt is processed in the same way as the INTR interrupt. Interrupt type of the NMI is 2, i.e. the address of the NMI processing routine is stored in location 0008h. This interrupt has higher priority then the maskable interrupt.

Software interrupts can be caused by:

• INT instruction - breakpoint interrupt. This is a type 3 interrupt.
• INT instruction - any one interrupt from available 256 interrupts.
• INTO instruction - interrupt on overflow
• Single-step interrupt - generated if the TF flag is set. This is a type 1 interrupt. When the CPU processes this interrupt it clears TF flag before calling the interrupt processing routine.
• Processor exceptions: divide error (type 0), unused opcode (type 6) and escape opcode (type 7).

Software interrupt processing is the same as for the hardware interrupts.

I/O ports

65536 8-bit I/O ports. These ports can be also addressed as 32768 16-bit I/O ports.

Registers

Most of the registers contain data/instruction offsets within 64 KB memory segment. There are four different 64 KB segments for instructions, stack, data and extra data. To specify where in 1 MB of processor memory these 4 segments are located the processor uses four segment registers:

Code segment (CS) is a 16-bit register containing address of 64 KB segment with processor instructions. The processor uses CS segment for all accesses to instructions referenced by instruction pointer (IP) register. CS register cannot be changed directly. The CS register is automatically updated during far jump, far call and far return instructions.

Stack segment (SS) is a 16-bit register containing address of 64KB segment with program stack. By default, the processor assumes that all data referenced by the stack pointer (SP) and base pointer (BP) registers is located in the stack segment. SS register can be changed directly using POP instruction.

Data segment (DS) is a 16-bit register containing address of 64KB segment with program data. By default, the processor assumes that all data referenced by general registers (AX, BX, CX, DX) and index register (SI, DI) is located in the data segment. DS register can be changed directly using POP and LDS instructions.

Extra segment (ES) is a 16-bit register containing address of 64KB segment, usually with program data. By default, the processor assumes that the DI register references the ES segment in string manipulation instructions. ES register can be changed directly using POP and LES instructions.

It is possible to change default segments used by general and index registers by prefixing instructions with a CS, SS, DS or ES prefix.

All general registers of the 8086 microprocessor can be used for arithmetic and logic operations. The general registers are:

Accumulator register consists of 2 8-bit registers AL and AH, which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit register AX. AL in this case contains the low-order byte of the word, and AH contains the high-order byte. Accumulator can be used for I/O operations and string manipulation.

Base register consists of 2 8-bit registers BL and BH, which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit register BX. BL in this case contains the low-order byte of the word, and BH contains the high-order byte. BX register usually contains a data pointer used for based, based indexed or register indirect addressing.

Count register consists of 2 8-bit registers CL and CH, which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit register CX. When combined, CL register contains the low-order byte of the word, and CH contains the high-order byte. Count register can be used as a counter in string manipulation and shift/rotate instructions.

Data register consists of 2 8-bit registers DL and DH, which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit register DX. When combined, DL register contains the low-order byte of the word, and DH contains the high-order byte. Data register can be used as a port number in I/O operations. In integer 32-bit multiply and divide instruction the DX register contains high-order word of the initial or resulting number.

The following registers are both general and index registers:

Stack Pointer (SP) is a 16-bit register pointing to program stack.

Base Pointer (BP) is a 16-bit register pointing to data in stack segment. BP register is usually used for based, based indexed or register indirect addressing.

Source Index (SI) is a 16-bit register. SI is used for indexed, based indexed and register indirect addressing, as well as a source data address in string manipulation instructions.

Destination Index (DI) is a 16-bit register. DI is used for indexed, based indexed and register indirect addressing, as well as a destination data address in string manipulation instructions.

Other registers:

Instruction Pointer (IP) is a 16-bit register.

Flags is a 16-bit register containing 9 1-bit flags:

• Overflow Flag (OF) - set if the result is too large positive number, or is too small negative number to fit into destination operand.
• Direction Flag (DF) - if set then string manipulation instructions will auto-decrement index registers. If cleared then the index registers will be auto-incremented.
• Interrupt-enable Flag (IF) - setting this bit enables maskable interrupts.
• Single-step Flag (TF) - if set then single-step interrupt will occur after the next instruction.
• Sign Flag (SF) - set if the most significant bit of the result is set.
• Zero Flag (ZF) - set if the result is zero.
• Auxiliary carry Flag (AF) - set if there was a carry from or borrow to bits 0-3 in the AL register.
• Parity Flag (PF) - set if parity (the number of "1" bits) in the low-order byte of the result is even.
• Carry Flag (CF) - set if there was a carry from or borrow to the most significant bit during last result calculation.

Instruction Set

8086 instruction set consists of the following instructions:

• Data moving instructions.
• Arithmetic - add, subtract, increment, decrement, convert byte/word and compare.
• Logic - AND, OR, exclusive OR, shift/rotate and test.
• String manipulation - load, store, move, compare and scan for byte/word.
• Control transfer - conditional, unconditional, call subroutine and return from subroutine.
• Input/Output instructions.
• Other - setting/clearing flag bits, stack operations, software interrupts, etc.

Addressing modes

Implied - the data value/data address is implicitly associated with the instruction.

Register - references the data in a register or in a register pair.

Immediate - the data is provided in the instruction.

Direct - the instruction operand specifies the memory address where data is located.

Register indirect - instruction specifies a register containing an address, where data is located. This addressing mode works with SI, DI, BX and BP registers.

Based - 8-bit or 16-bit instruction operand is added to the contents of a base register (BX or BP), the resulting value is a pointer to location where data resides.

Indexed - 8-bit or 16-bit instruction operand is added to the contents of an index register (SI or DI), the resulting value is a pointer to location where data resides.

Based Indexed - the contents of a base register (BX or BP) is added to the contents of an index register (SI or DI), the resulting value is a pointer to location where data resides.

Based Indexed with displacement - 8-bit or 16-bit instruction operand is added to the contents of a base register (BX or BP) and index register (SI or DI), the resulting value is a pointer to location where data resides.

Answer 4

It's available on the web. In Google, or any other search engine, just type in the part number and nothing else. In this case, it would be `8086'. You should then find access to manufacturer's spec sheets, etc.

Answer 5

. INTRODUCTION: MPU is defined as a device or a group of devices that can communicate with peripherals provide timing signals, direct data flow and perform computing tasks as specified by the instructions in memory. This unit will have the necessary address bus, the data bus, the control signals, and would have require only a power of supply and a crystal to be functional. The 8085A is an 8-bit general purpose microprocessor capable of addressing 64KB of memory. The device has 40 pins, requires +5V single power supply. All the signals of 8085 can be classified into 6 groups. They are : § Address Bus § Data Bus § Control and Status Signals § Power supply and frequency Signals § Serial I/O Ports The lower order address bus 8085 is multiplexed with the data bus. The bus need to be demultiplexed. Appropriate control signal need to be generated to interface memory and I/O with the 8085. 2. ADDRESS BUS: The 8085 has 8 signal lines, A15-A8 which are unidirectional and used as the higher order address bus. 3. MULTIPLEXED ADDRESS/DATA BUS:The signal lines AD7-AD- are bidirectional, they serve dual purpose. They are used as the low order address bus as well as the data bus. In executing an instruction, during the earlier part of the cycle, these lines are used as the low order address bus. During the later part of the cycle, these lines are used as the data bus. However, the low order address bus can be separated from these signals by using a latch. 4. CONTROL AND STATUS SIGNAL:This group of signals includes two control signals (RD and WR), three status signal (IO/M, S1, S0) to indicate the beginning of the operation. 5. POWER SUPPLY AND CLOCK FREQUENCY: § Vcc: +5V power supply. § Vss: Ground reference. § X1, X2: A crystal is connected at these two pins. The frequency is internally divided by two; therefore, to operate a system at 3MHz, the crystal should have a frequency of 6MHz. § CLK (Out): Clock output - this signal can be used as the system clock for other devices.

Answer 6

8085 Architecture - II Written by: shankar • Edited by: KennethSleight

Published Sep 30, 2009 • Related Guides: Intel

Learn in detail about the functions and working of flags, the timing and control unit, Interrupt control and various other signals associated with it. Also learn about the Data bus and address bus present in 8085 microprocessor and how these units combine to process a data altogether.

Introduction

In the previous articles we learnt about what are microprocessors in general and the about the 8085 microprocessor in particular. We saw the various registers used in 8085 microprocessor and how they act along with Arithmetic and Logic unit to process a data. But Registers and ALU alone cannot successfully process a data and provide the result to the programmer. There are various other units which help in data transfer and addressing, Carry operation while adding or subtracting, and sometimes also to interrupt a process when necessary. Let us discuss about those units in detail.

Architecture DiagramFlags

Flags are nothing but a group of individual Flip-flops. The flags are mainly associated with arithmetic and logic operations. The flags will show either a logical (0 or 1) (i.e.) a set or reset depending on the data conditions in accumulator or various other registers. A flag is actually a latch which can hold some bits of information. It alerts the processor that some event has taken place.

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But why are they called flags?

The possible solution is from the small flags which are found on the mail boxes in America. The small flag indicates that there is a mail in the mail box. Similarly this denotes that an event has occurred in the processor.

Intel processors have a set of 5 flags.

• Carry flag
• Parity flag
• Auxiliary carry flag
• Zero flag
• Sign flag

Consider two binary numbers.

For example:

1100 0000

1000 0000

When we add the above two numbers, a carry is generated in the most significant bit. The number in the extreme right is least significant bit, while the number in extreme left is most significant bit. So a ninth bit is generated due to the carry. So how to accommodate 9th bit in an 8 bit register?

For this purpose the Carry flag is used. The carry flag is set whenever a carry is generated and reset whenever there is no carry.

But there is an auxiliary carry flag? What is the difference between the carry flag and auxiliary carry flag?

Let's discuss with an example. Consider the two numbers given below

0000 0100, 0000 0101

When we add both the numbers a carry is generated in the third bit from the least significant bit. This sets the auxiliary carry flag. When there is no carry, the auxiliary carry flag is reset.

So whenever there is a carry in the most significant bit Carry flag is set. While an auxiliary carry flag is set only when a carry is generated in bits other than the most significant bit.

Parity checks whether it's even or add parity. This flag returns a 0 if it is odd parity and returns a 1 if it is an even parity. Sometimes they are also called as parity bit which is used to check errors while data transmission is carried out.

Zero flag shows whether the output of the operation is 0 or not. If the value of Zero flag is 0 then the result of operation is not zero. If it is zero the flag returns value 1.

Sign flag shows whether the output of operation has positive sign or negative sign. A value 0 is returned for positive sign and 1 is returned for negative sign.

Instruction Register and Decoder

Instruction register is 8-bit register just like every other register of microprocessor. Consider an instruction. The instruction may be anything like adding two data's, moving a data, copying a data etc. When such an instruction is fetched from memory, it is directed to Instruction register. So the instruction registers are specifically to store the instructions that are fetched from memory.

There is an Instruction decoder which decodes the informations present in the Instruction register for further processing.

Timing and Control Unit

Timing and control unit is a very important unit as it synchronizes the registers and flow of data through various registers and other units. This unit consists of an oscillator and controller sequencer which sends control signals needed for internal and external control of data and other units.

The oscillator generates two-phase clock signals which aids in synchronizing all the registers of 8085 microprocessor.

Signals that are associated with Timing and control unit are:

Control Signals: READY, RD', WR', ALE

Status Signals: S0, S1, IO/M'

DMA Signals: HOLD, HLDA

RESET Signals: RESET IN, RESET OUT

Interrupt Control

As the name suggests this control interrupts a process. Consider that a microprocessor is executing the main program. Now whenever the interrupt signal is enabled or requested the microprocessor shifts the control from main program to process the incoming request and after the completion of request, the control goes back to the main program. For example an Input/output device may send an interrupt signal to notify that the data is ready for input. The microprocessor temporarily stops the execution of main program and transfers control to I/O device. After collecting the input data the control is transferred back to main program.

Interrupt signals present in 8085 are:

INTR

RST 7.5

RST 6.5

RST 5.5

TRAP

Of the above four interrupts TRAP is a NON-MASKABLE interrupt control and other three are maskable interrupts.

A non-maskable interrupt is an interrupt which is given the highest priority in the order of interrupts. Suppose you want an instruction to be processed immediately, then you can give the instruction as a non-maskable interrupt. Further the non-maskable interrupt cannot be disabled by programmer at any point of time.

Whereas the maskable interrupts can be disabled and enabled using EI and DI instructions. Among the maskable interrupts RST 7.5 is given the highest priority above RST 6.5 and least priority is given to INTR.

Serial I/O control

The input and output of serial data can be carried out using 2 instructions in 8085.

SID-Serial Input Data

SOD-Serial Output Data

Two more instructions are used to perform serial-parallel conversion needed for serial I/O devices.

SIM

RIM

Address buffer and Address-Data buffer

The contents of the stack pointer and program counter are loaded into the address buffer and address-data buffer. These buffers are then used to drive the external address bus and address-data bus. As the memory and I/O chips are connected to these buses, the CPU can exchange desired data to the memory and I/O chips.

The address-data buffer is not only connected to the external data bus but also to the internal data bus which consists of 8-bits. The address data buffer can both send and receive data from internal data bus.

Address bus and Data bus:

We know that 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor. So the data bus present in the microprocessor is also 8-bits wide. So 8-bits of data can be transmitted from or to the microprocessor. But 8085 processor requires 16 bit address bus as the memory addresses are 16-bit wide.

The 8 most significant bits of the address are transmitted with the help of address bus and the 8 least significant bits are transmitted with the help of multiplexed address/data bus. The eight bit data bus is multiplexed with the eight least significant bits of address bus. The address/data bus is time multiplexed. This means for few microseconds, the 8 least significant bits of address are generated, while for next few seconds the same pin generates the data. This is called Time multiplexing.

But there are situations where there is a need to transmit both data and address simultaneously. For this purpose a signal called ALE (address latch enable) is used. ALE signal holds the obtained address in its latch for a long time until the data is obtained and so when the microprocessor sends the data next time the address is also available at the output latch. This technique is called Address/Data demultiplexing.

Answer 7

Draw the connection diagram of 8086 MPU ?

Answer 8

They have about 4 maybe 5 megapixel bits and on a good day it has about half of the amount of RAM of an Inte i6 processor.

Answer 9

The 8087 is a math co-processor intended to be used with the 8086/8088. It integrates with the CPU, providing a unified instruction set that now includes floating point support.