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8086 Interview Questions

The document discusses interview questions about the 8086 microprocessor. It includes questions about the various flags, interrupts, registers, functional units, and differences between the 8086 and 8088. Specifically, it covers the carry, parity, auxiliary carry, zero, overflow, trace, interrupt, direction, and sign flags. It also discusses maskable and non-maskable interrupts, the maximum clock frequency of 5 MHz, and the segment and stack registers.

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8086 Interview Questions

The document discusses interview questions about the 8086 microprocessor. It includes questions about the various flags, interrupts, registers, functional units, and differences between the 8086 and 8088. Specifically, it covers the carry, parity, auxiliary carry, zero, overflow, trace, interrupt, direction, and sign flags. It also discusses maskable and non-maskable interrupts, the maximum clock frequency of 5 MHz, and the segment and stack registers.

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8086 interview questions

By admin | January 9, 2005

1. What are the flags in 8086? - In 8086 Carry flag, Parity flag, Auxiliary carry flag, Zero flag, Overflow
flag, Trace flag, Interrupt flag, Direction flag, and Sign flag.
2. What are the various interrupts in 8086? - Maskable interrupts, Non-Maskable interrupts.
3. What is meant by Maskable interrupts? - An interrupt that can be turned off by the programmer is
known as Maskable interrupt.
4. What is Non-Maskable interrupts? - An interrupt which can be never be turned off (ie.disabled) is
known as Non-Maskable interrupt.
5. Which interrupts are generally used for critical events? - Non-Maskable interrupts are used in
critical events. Such as Power failure, Emergency, Shut off etc.,
6. Give examples for Maskable interrupts? - RST 7.5, RST6.5, RST5.5 are Maskable interrupts
7. Give example for Non-Maskable interrupts? - Trap is known as Non-Maskable interrupts, which is
used in emergency condition.
8. What is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086? - 5 Mhz is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086.
9. What are the various segment registers in 8086? - Code, Data, Stack, Extra Segment registers in
8086.
10. Which Stack is used in 8086? - FIFO (First In First Out) stack is used in 8086.In this type of Stack the
first stored information is retrieved first.
11.What are the address lines for the software interrupts? –
12.

RST 0 0000 H

RST1 0008 H

RST2 0010 H

RST3 0018 H

RST4 0020 H

RST5 0028 H

RST6 0030 H

RST7 0038 H
13. What is SIM and RIM instructions? - SIM is Set Interrupt Mask. Used to mask the hardware interrupts.
RIM is Read Interrupt Mask. Used to check whether the interrupt is Masked or not.
14. Which is the tool used to connect the user and the computer? - Interpreter is the tool used to
connect the user and the tool.
15. What is the position of the Stack Pointer after the PUSH instruction? - The address line is 02 less
than the earlier value.
16. What is the position of the Stack Pointer after the POP instruction? - The address line is 02
greater than the earlier value.
17. Logic calculations are done in which type of registers? - Accumulator is the register in which
Arithmetic and Logic calculations are done.
18. What are the different functional units in 8086? - Bus Interface Unit and Execution unit, are the two
different functional units in 8086.
19. Give examples for Micro controller? - Z80, Intel MSC51 &96, Motorola are the best examples of
Microcontroller.
20. What is meant by cross-compiler? - A program runs on one machine and executes on another is called
as cross-compiler.
21. What are the address lines for the hardware interrupts? -

003C H
RST 7.5

RST 0034 H
6.5

RST 5.5 002C H

TRAP 0024 H

22. Which Segment is used to store interrupt and subroutine return address registers? - Stack
Segment in segment register is used to store interrupt and subroutine return address registers.
23. Which Flags can be set or reset by the programmer and also used to control the operation of
the processor? - Trace Flag, Interrupt Flag, Direction Flag.
24. What does EU do? - Execution Unit receives program instruction codes and data from BIU, executes these
instructions and store the result in general registers.
25. Which microprocessor accepts the program written for 8086 without any changes? - 8088 is
that processor.
26. What is the difference between 8086 and 8088? - The BIU in 8088 is 8-bit data bus & 16- bit in
8086.Instruction queue is 4 byte long in 8088and 6 byte in 8086.
Mhz is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086.

For 8086-I +8Mhz and for 8086-II +10mhz

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