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Topic-II

8086 Microprocessor & it’s

Architecture

T1. Barry B. Brey, The Intel Microprocessors. Pearson, Eight Ed. 2009. Chapter 2
R1. Douglas V Hall, Microprocessor and Interfacing, TMH, Second Edition. Chapter 2

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Stack Segment
The CPU use the stack for temporarily
storing important data. For example the
content of register that will be require
at later stage.

The stack grows down i.e. the data is

pushed onto the stack memory
locations with decreasing address.

When the data is required by CPU in

later stage they will be popped off from
the stack.

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Physical address calculation

• The total addressable memory size is 1Mega Byte memory.

•The complete 1MB memory is divided into 16 logical segments
and each segment contains 64Kbytes of memory.

•While addressing any location in the memory bank the physical

address is calculated from two parts ; the first is segment address
and the second is offset address.

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8086 Memory Address Space

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Physical address calculation

• At any given time the 8086 works with only four 64 KB

segments within this 1MB range.

• A 64 KB segment can be located anywhere within the 1 MB

space, but the address will always start at an address with zeros in
the lowest 4 bits.

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Physical address calculation

• This constraint was put on the location of segments so that it is

only necessary to store and manipulate 16- bit data .

• The part of the segment starting address that is stored in

segment registers is known as segment base address.

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Programmer’s model of 8086

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Segmentation

Physical address = (<segment> * 16) + <offset>

= Segment address will shift left bitwise 4 times

+ offset address

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Default 16-bit segment and offset

address combinations
SEGMENT OFFSET SPECIAL
PURPOSE
CS IP INSTRUCTION
ADDRESS

SS SP (or) BP STACK ADDRESS

DS BX, DI, SI, DATA ADDRESS

an 8-bit number,
16 bit number
ES DI STRING
for string Instructions DESTINATION
ADDRESS
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Segmentation

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Physical Address

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Advantage of Segmentation

• Allows the memory capacity to be 1MBytes although the

actual addresses to be handled are of 16-bit size.

• Allow the placing of code, data and stack portions of the

same program in different parts (segments) of memory, for
data and code protection

• Relocation: Permits a program and/or its data to be put into

different areas of memory each time the program is
executed.

• Program - Specify only offset

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Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

A B F Y
n bits n bits
0 0 0 A+B
0 0 1 A -B
Carry
0 1 0 A -1
Y= 0 ? F 0 1 1 A and B
1 0 0 A or B
A>B?
1 0 1 not A
     
Y

 Signal F control which function will be conducted by ALU.

 Signal F is generated according to the current instruction.
 Basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, 
 Basic logic operations: and, or, xor, shifting,
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x86 -ISA
8086-80486 Programmer’s Model
BIU

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Memory Addressing

• Real
- Access only 1MB of memory
- Only 20 Address lines required.

• Protected
- support multitasking
- memory management protection enabled

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Programmer’s Model BIU

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Programmer’s Model- MPR

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