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Microprocessor - 8085 Architecture

(1) The 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Intel in 1977 that uses a single phase clock and requires a +5V supply. (2) It has an 8-bit data bus, 16-bit address bus, 6 8-bit registers arranged in pairs, and functional units including an accumulator, ALU, program counter, and stack pointer. (3) The 8085 is used in devices like washing machines, microwave ovens, and mobile phones.

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Microprocessor - 8085 Architecture

(1) The 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Intel in 1977 that uses a single phase clock and requires a +5V supply. (2) It has an 8-bit data bus, 16-bit address bus, 6 8-bit registers arranged in pairs, and functional units including an accumulator, ALU, program counter, and stack pointer. (3) The 8085 is used in devices like washing machines, microwave ovens, and mobile phones.

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Microprocessor - 8085 Architecture

8085 is pronounced as "eighty-eighty-five" microprocessor. It is an 8-bit microprocessor


designed by Intel in 1977 using NMOS technology.

It has the following configuration −

8-bit data bus


16-bit address bus, which can address upto 64KB
A 16-bit program counter
A 16-bit stack pointer
Six 8-bit registers arranged in pairs: BC, DE, HL
Requires +5V supply to operate at 3.2 MHZ single phase clock

It is used in washing machines, microwave ovens, mobile phones, etc.

8085 Microprocessor – Functional Units


8085 consists of the following functional units −

Accumulator
It is an 8-bit register used to perform arithmetic, logical, I/O & LOAD/STORE operations. It is
connected to internal data bus & ALU.

Arithmetic and logic unit


As the name suggests, it performs arithmetic and logical operations like Addition, Subtraction,
AND, OR, etc. on 8-bit data.

General purpose register


There are 6 general purpose registers in 8085 processor, i.e. B, C, D, E, H & L. Each register can
hold 8-bit data.

These registers can work in pair to hold 16-bit data and their pairing combination is like B-C, D-
E & H-L.
Program counter
It is a 16-bit register used to store the memory address location of the next instruction to be
executed. Microprocessor increments the program whenever an instruction is being executed, so
that the program counter points to the memory address of the next instruction that is going to
be executed.

Stack pointer
It is also a 16-bit register works like stack, which is always incremented/decremented by 2
during push & pop operations.

Temporary register
It is an 8-bit register, which holds the temporary data of arithmetic and logical operations.

Flag register
It is an 8-bit register having five 1-bit flip-flops, which holds either 0 or 1 depending upon the
result stored in the accumulator.

These are the set of 5 flip-flops −

Sign (S)
Zero (Z)
Auxiliary Carry (AC)
Parity (P)
Carry (C)

Its bit position is shown in the following table −

D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0

S Z AC P CY

Instruction register and decoder


It is an 8-bit register. When an instruction is fetched from memory then it is stored in the
Instruction register. Instruction decoder decodes the information present in the Instruction
register.

Timing and control unit


It provides timing and control signal to the microprocessor to perform operations. Following are
the timing and control signals, which control external and internal circuits −

Control Signals: READY, RD’, WR’, ALE


Status Signals: S0, S1, IO/M’
DMA Signals: HOLD, HLDA
RESET Signals: RESET IN, RESET OUT

Interrupt control
As the name suggests it controls the interrupts during a process. When a microprocessor is
executing a main program and whenever an interrupt occurs, the microprocessor shifts the
control from the main program to process the incoming request. After the request is completed,
the control goes back to the main program.

There are 5 interrupt signals in 8085 microprocessor: INTR, RST 7.5, RST 6.5, RST 5.5, TRAP.

Serial Input/output control


It controls the serial data communication by using these two instructions: SID (Serial input data)
and SOD (Serial output data).

Address buffer and address-data buffer


The content stored in the stack pointer and program counter is loaded into the address buffer
and address-data buffer to communicate with the CPU. The memory and I/O chips are
connected to these buses; the CPU can exchange the desired data with the memory and I/O
chips.

Address bus and data bus


Data bus carries the data to be stored. It is bidirectional, whereas address bus carries the
location to where it should be stored and it is unidirectional. It is used to transfer the data &
Address I/O devices.

8085 Architecture
We have tried to depict the architecture of 8085 with this following image −

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