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MOCROPROCESSOR

The 8086 Microprocessor, developed in 1976, is a 16-bit microprocessor with 20 address lines and 16 data lines, designed to address the limitations of the 8085 Microprocessor. It supports both maximum and minimum operation modes, can access up to 1 MB of memory, and features a 6-byte instruction queue for efficient execution. The microprocessor consists of a Bus Interface Unit and an Execution Unit, but it can only perform fixed-point arithmetic operations.

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MOCROPROCESSOR

The 8086 Microprocessor, developed in 1976, is a 16-bit microprocessor with 20 address lines and 16 data lines, designed to address the limitations of the 8085 Microprocessor. It supports both maximum and minimum operation modes, can access up to 1 MB of memory, and features a 6-byte instruction queue for efficient execution. The microprocessor consists of a Bus Interface Unit and an Execution Unit, but it can only perform fixed-point arithmetic operations.

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INTRODUCTION TO 8086 MICROPROCESSOR

The 8086 Microprocessor is an enhanced version of the 8085


Microprocessor, it was developed to overcome the drawbacks of the
8085 Microprocessor in 1976. It is a 16-bit-based Microprocessor that has
20 address lines and 16 data lines.

The 8086 Microprocessor supports both operation modes. The maximum


operation mode is useful for systems which have multiple processors and
the minimum operation mode is useful for the systems which have a
single processor.
Features of 8086 Microprocessor
The most important features of 8086 microprocessors are as follows -

➢ The 8086 microprocessor is a 16-bit microprocessor. What this means is that the
ALU and the internal registers work with 16 bit of binary data at a time.
➢ It has 16 bits of the data bus. Because of this, the 8086 can read or write either
16 bit or 8 bit of data at a time. 1
➢ The 8086 microprocessor has 20 bits of address lines that can
access 220 address locations.
➢ Each memory location is a byte-addressable memory location.
Therefore, the total amount of memory that the 8086
microprocessor contains = 220 bytes = 1 MB
Therefore, the 8086 can access up to 1 MB of memory.
➢ It works in the frequency range of about 5-10 MHz. (There are 3
versions of the 8086 microprocessor and each of them works in a
different frequency range.)
➢ The 8086 microprocessor works in 2 modes:
1. Maximum mode
2. Minimum mode
➢ The instruction queue of the 8086 microprocessor is of 6 bytes of
length. Therefore, the 8086 microprocessor can pre-fetch up to 6
instructions from the memory and queue them in order to speed up
the instruction execution.
➢ The 8086 microprocessor can perform only fixed-point arithmetic
instructions. It means that the floating-point operations cannot be
performed by it. This is a drawback of the 8086 which was later
eliminated in the further series of Intel processors.
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Components of 8086 Microprocessor

The following are the components of an 8086 microprocessor:


•The 8086 microprocessor consists of two main blocks:
• Bus Interface Unit (BIU)
• Execution Unit (EU)
•The Bus Interface Unit (BIU) consists of the following components:
• Instruction Queue
• Segment Registers
• Instruction Pointer (IP)
•The Execution Unit (EU) consists the following:
• Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
• Control Unit
• General Purpose registers
• Index registers and pointers (except IP)
• Flags and Operands

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