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MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

P.O. Box 972-60200 – Meru-Kenya.


Tel: +254 (0)799529958, +254 (0)799529959, +254 (0)712524293
Website: www.must.ac.ke Email: [email protected]

University Examinations 2021/2022

YEAR, FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR


OF TECHNOLOGY IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

EET 3206: MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS


DATE: OCTOBER 2022 TIME: 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS:
• This paper contains five questions
• Answer question one and any other two questions

QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)


(a) (i) Distinguish between a microprocessor and a microcontroller
(ii) Explain any FOUR main features of Intel 8086 microprocessors (6 marks)
(b) Draw the register organization set of Intel 8086 microprocessor and state the functions of Code-
and Data-Segment registers (6 marks)
(c) (i) Explain the computing physical Address of a microprocessor
(ii) With the aid of diagrams differentiate between Overlapping and Non-overlapping memory
segments (8 marks)
(d) Give that the Code Segment Address is 24F6H and the Instruction Pointer Address is 634AH,
determine the:
(i) Physical Address
(ii) Lower- and Upper-range of the Code Segment Address (4 marks)
(e) Design a block diagram of Intel 8086 microcontroller-based closed loop speed and position
control of a D.C motor and state the functions of each block (6 marks)

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QUESTION TWO (15 MARKS)
(a) (i) State any TWO differences between Intel 8086 and 8085 microprocessor
(ii) With the aid of the architectural diagram discuss the functional parts of Central Processing
Unit of Intel 8086 microprocessor (10 marks)
(b) (i) State the main differences between physical- and virtual- memory
(ii) Draw the memory mapping diagram to show the relationship between virtual- and physical-
address spaces of Intel 8086 microprocessor (5 marks)
QUESTION THREE (15 MARKS)
a) (i) Explain how Intel microprocessor computes physical address
(ii) Distinguish between Extra- and Stack segment registers (6 marks)
b) Design an assembly program for Intel 8086 microprocessor to multiply two 16-bit number
where the starting address is 2000H and the numbers are at 3000H and 3002H memory
addresses. The result is stored at 3004H and 3006H memory locations (9 marks)
QUESTION FOUR (15 MARKS)
a) With reference to Intel 8086 microprocessor explain the following control transfer instructions
giving an example of each:
i. Intra segment Direct Mode
ii. Intersegment Direct Mode (4 marks)
(b) The following are the contents of different registers of Intel 8086 microprocessor:
- Offset (displacement) 5000H
–Accumulator [AX] 1000H
-Destination Segment 1000H
-Register [BX] 2000H
- Source Index 3000H
Determine the effective addresses of the following addressing modes:
(i) Direct addressing mode: MOV AX, [5000H]
(ii) Register indirect: MOV AX, [BX]
(iii) Based indexed: MOV AX, [BX] [SI] (6 marks)

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(c) Fig Q4(c) shows a block diagram design of a digital thermostat Intel 8086 Microprocessor-
embedded control system, describe its operation (5 marks)

Fig Q4(c)
QUESTION FIVE (15 MARKS)
(a) Draw the format of Intel 8086 microprocessor flag register and state the functions of each of
status and control flags (8 marks)
(b) Fig Q5 (b) shows a circuit diagram for interfacing stepper motor to Intel 8086 microprocessor
using 8051microcontroller, design and explain its operational assembly language program
(7 marks)

Fig Q5 (b)

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