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Microprocessor - 8086 Overview

The 8086 microprocessor is an enhanced 16-bit version of the 8085 microprocessor designed by Intel in 1976. It has 20 address lines and 16 data lines, allowing access to 1MB of memory. It features an instruction queue that can store six bytes, two-stage pipelining for faster processing, and 256 interrupts. The 8086 was an improvement over the 8085 with its 16-bit architecture, larger address bus, and ability to access more memory and I/O.

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Microprocessor - 8086 Overview

The 8086 microprocessor is an enhanced 16-bit version of the 8085 microprocessor designed by Intel in 1976. It has 20 address lines and 16 data lines, allowing access to 1MB of memory. It features an instruction queue that can store six bytes, two-stage pipelining for faster processing, and 256 interrupts. The 8086 was an improvement over the 8085 with its 16-bit architecture, larger address bus, and ability to access more memory and I/O.

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23/04/2023, 00:11 Microprocessor - 8086 Overview

Microprocessor - 8086 Overview

8086 Microprocessor is an enhanced version of 8085Microprocessor that was designed by Intel


in 1976. It is a 16-bit Microprocessor having 20 address lines and16 data lines that provides up
to 1MB storage. It consists of powerful instruction set, which provides operations like
multiplication and division easily.

It supports two modes of operation, i.e. Maximum mode and Minimum mode. Maximum mode is
suitable for system having multiple processors and Minimum mode is suitable for system having
a single processor.

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 −

8086 → 5MHz

8086-2 → 8MHz
(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.

Comparison between 8085 & 8086 Microprocessor


Size − 8085 is 8-bit microprocessor, whereas 8086 is 16-bit microprocessor.

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.

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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 −

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