sign flag
parity flag
zero flag
flags controls procesore
5 FLAGS
Flags are kind of register that record the condition of a microprocessor's calculation process.
A loop in a microprocessor, like any loop in any programming language, is a series of instructions that is executed repeatedly until some condition is satisfied. An example of a delay loop in the 8085 might be... . PUSH FLAGS . XRA A L INR A . JNZ L . POP FLAGS This piece of code, with a 1 MHz clock, will take about 4.6 mS to execute, and it will save and restore the accumulator and flags.
Flags in a microprocessor are special bits in a status register that indicate the state of the processor or the outcome of operations. They reflect conditions such as zero, carry, overflow, and sign, which help control the flow of programs and decision-making in execution. For example, if an arithmetic operation results in zero, the zero flag is set, influencing subsequent conditional instructions. These flags enable efficient handling of branching and looping, allowing the CPU to react dynamically to different computational scenarios.
The NOP instruction is short for no-operation. It is an executable instruction that does nothing to the processor, its registers, or its flags. It is useful in timing loops, or to provide room for patchabilty of a piece of code.
RET pops the PC off of the stack, while IRET pops both the flags and the PC off of the stack.
The 8086 microprocessor has several types of flags, categorized into two main groups: status flags and control flags. Status flags include the Zero Flag (ZF), Sign Flag (SF), Parity Flag (PF), Carry Flag (CF), and Overflow Flag (OF), which indicate the outcome of arithmetic and logical operations. Control flags include the Direction Flag (DF), which determines the direction of string operations, and the Interrupt Flag (IF), which enables or disables interrupts. Additionally, there is a Trap Flag (TF) used for single-step debugging.
The MOV A,A instruction in the 8085 does nothing, not even change flags. It only consumes time, specifically four clock cycles plus applicable wait states.
ADD B in a microprocessor means to add the contents of the accumulator to the B register and store the result in the accumulator. Flags are set according to the result - Z if zero, C if an unsigned carry occurred, AC if a BCD carry occurred, N if the result is signed negative, O if the parity is odd, OV if a signed overflow occurred. Note that not every microprocessor has every flag listed.
How does a microprocessor decode?
The 8085 microprocessor has an 8-bit flag register, even though it only has 5 flags, because all of the registers in the 8085 are 8-bit or 16-bit. In fact, the flags register is considered to be part of the accumulator, as one "register pair", for purposes of stack push/pop and interrupt call/return. Be warned, however, that you should not attempt to change the state of bits stored on the stack and then pop'ing them into AF, because some of the three "unused" bits might be undocumented but actually used, or their meaning might change between different versions of the chip.