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Chapter 2 (8086)mp - 8086 microprocessor

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8086 Microprocessor (cont..)

• It is a 16 bit µp.
• 8086 has a 20 bit address bus can access upto 220 memory
locations ( 1 MB) .
• It can support upto 64K I/O ports.
• It provides 14, 16-bit registers.
• It has multiplexed address and data bus AD0- AD15
and A16 – A19.

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8086 Microprocessor (cont..)

• It requires single phase clock with 33% duty cycle to
provide internal timing.
• 8086 is designed to operate in two modes, Minimum and
Maximum.
• It can prefetches upto 6 instruction bytes from memory and
queues them in order to speed up instruction execution.
• It requires +5V power supply.
• A 40 pin dual in line package.

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8086 Microprocessor (cont..)

Minimum and Maximum Modes:
• The minimum mode is selected by applying logic 1 to the
MN / MX# input pin. This is a single microprocessor
configuration.
• The maximum mode is selected by applying logic 0 to the
MN / MX# input pin. This is a multi micro processors
configuration.

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8086 Microprocessor (cont..)

AH AL
ADDRESS BUS
BH BL
∑
CH CL ( 20 )
GENERAL BITS
DH DL
REGISTERS
SP
DATA BUS
BP
( 16 )
SI BITS
DI
ES
CS
SS
DS
ALU DATA BUS
IP
8
16 BITS
0
BUS
8

TEMPORARY REGISTERS 6
CONTROL
LOGIC B
U
S

EU
ALU CONTROL INSTRUCTION QUEUE
SYSTEM Q BUS
1 2 3 4 5 6
8 BIT

FLAGS
BUS INTERFACE UNIT ( BIU)
EXECUTION UNIT ( EU )

Fig:
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Pin Diagram of 8086

GND 1 40 VCC
AD14 2 39 AD15
AD13 3 38 A16 / S3
AD12 4 37 A17 / S4
AD11 5 36 A18 / S5
AD10 6 35 A19/S6 _____

AD9 7 34 ____ BHE / S7

AD8
AD7
8 8086 33
___
MN/MX
9 32 _____ _____
AD6 RD
AD5
10
11
CPU 31 ___ _____RQ / GT0 ( HOLD)

AD4
30 RQ / GT
___1
( HLDA)
12 _______
29 ____
____
AD3 LOCK (WR)
13
28 ___
___ S2 (M / IO )
AD2
14 27 S1
___
(DT
_____
/ R)
AD1 15 26 S0 (DEN)
AD0 25 ________ QS0 (ALE)
16
NMI 24 QS1 (INTA)
17
______
INTR 18 23
TEST
CLK 19 22
READY
GND 20 21
RESET

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VCC GND

A0 - A15, A16 / S3 – A19/S6

INTR
_____

INTA ADDRESS / DATA BUS

INTERRUPT
______

TEST INTERFACE
D0 - D15

NMI 8086 ALE

___
MPU
RESET
BHE / S7
__

MEMORY M / IO __

I/O DT / R
HOLD DMA ____

CONTROLS RD
HLDA INTERFACE _____

WR
VCC _____

DEN
MODE
____
SELECT READY
MN / MX

CLK
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Internal Architecture of 8086

• 8086 has two blocks BIU and EU.

• The BIU performs all bus operations such as instruction
fetching, reading and writing operands for memory and
calculating the addresses of the memory operands.
• The instruction bytes are transferred to the instruction
queue.
• EU executes instructions from the instruction system byte
queue.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• Both units operate asynchronously to give the 8086 an

overlapping instruction fetch and execution mechanism
which is called as Pipelining. This results in efficient use
of the system bus and system performance.
• BIU contains Instruction queue, Segment registers,
Instruction pointer, Address adder.
• EU contains Control circuitry, Instruction decoder, ALU,
Pointer and Index register, Flag register.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• Bus Interfacr Unit:
• It provides a full 16 bit bidirectional data bus and 20 bit
address bus.
• The bus interface unit is responsible for performing all
external bus operations.
Specifically it has the following functions:
• Instruction fetch, Instruction queuing, Operand fetch and
storage, Address relocation and Bus control.
• The BIU uses a mechanism known as an instruction stream
queue to implement a pipeline architecture.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• This queue permits prefetch of up to six bytes of
instruction code. When ever the queue of the BIU is not
full, it has room for at least two more bytes and at the same
time the EU is not requesting it to read or write operands
from memory, the BIU is free to look ahead in the program
by prefetching the next sequential instruction.
• These prefetching instructions are held in its FIFO queue.
With its 16 bit data bus, the BIU fetches two instruction
bytes in a single memory cycle.
• After a byte is loaded at the input end of the queue, it
automatically shifts up through the FIFO to the empty
location nearest the output.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• The EU accesses the queue from the output end. It reads
one instruction byte after the other from the output of the
queue. If the queue is full and the EU is not requesting
access to operand in memory.
• These intervals of no bus activity, which may occur
between bus cycles are known as Idle state.
• If the BIU is already in the process of fetching an
instruction when the EU request it to read or write
operands from memory or I/O, the BIU first completes the
instruction fetch bus cycle before initiating the operand
read / write cycle.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• The BIU also contains a dedicated adder which is used to
generate the 20 bit physical address that is output on the
address bus. This address is formed by adding an appended
16 bit segment address and a 16 bit offset address.
• For example, the physical address of the next instruction to
be fetched is formed by combining the current contents of
the code segment CS register and the current contents of
the instruction pointer IP register.
• The BIU is also responsible for generating bus control
signals such as those for memory read or write and I/O
read or write.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• EXECUTION UNIT : The Execution unit is responsible
for decoding and executing all instructions.
• The EU extracts instructions from the top of the queue in
the BIU, decodes them, generates operands if necessary,
passes them to the BIU and requests it to perform the read
or write bys cycles to memory or I/O and perform the
operation specified by the instruction on the operands.
• During the execution of the instruction, the EU tests the
status and control flags and updates them based on the
results of executing the instruction.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

• If the queue is empty, the EU waits for the next instruction

byte to be fetched and shifted to top of the queue.
• When the EU executes a branch or jump instruction, it
transfers control to a location corresponding to another set
of sequential instructions.
• Whenever this happens, the BIU automatically resets the
queue and then begins to fetch instructions from this new
location to refill the queue.

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

COMMON SIGNALS
Name Function Type
AD 15 – AD 0 Address/ Data Bus Bidirectional
3 - state
A19 / S 6 – A 16 / S 3 Address / Status Output 3 - State

BHE /S7 Bus High Enable / Output

Status 3- State
MN / MX Minimum / Input
Maximum Mode
Control
RD Read Control Output 3- State
TEST Wait On Test Control Input

READY Wait State Controls Input

RESET System Reset Input
NMI Non - Maskable Input
Interrupt Request
INTR Interrupt Request Input
CLK System Clock Input
Vcc + 5V Input
GND Ground
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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

Minimum Mode Signals ( MN/ MX = Vcc )

Name Function Type

HOLD Hold Request Input

HLDA Hold Acknowledge Output

WR Write Control Output,

3-- state
M/IO Memory or IO Control Output,
3-State
-

DT/R Data Transmit / Output,

Receiver 3- State
DEN Date Enable Output,
3-State

ALE Address Latch Enable Output

INTA Interrupt Acknowledge Output

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Internal Architecture of 8086 (cont..)

Maximum mode signals ( MN / MX = GND )
Name Function Type
RQ / GT1, 0 Request / Grant Bus Bidirectional
Access Control
Output,
LOCK Bus Priority Lock Control 3- State

Output,
S2 – S0 Bus Cycle Status 3- State
QS1, QS0 Instruction Queue Status Output

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Minimum Mode Interface

• When the Minimum mode operation is selected, the 8086
provides all control signals needed to implement the
memory and I/O interface.
• The minimum mode signal can be divided into the
following basic groups : address/data bus, status, control,
interrupt and DMA.
• Address/Data Bus : these lines serve two functions. As an
address bus is 20 bits long and consists of signal lines A0
through A19. A19 represents the MSB and A0 LSB. A 20bit
address gives the 8086 a 1Mbyte memory address space.
More over it has an independent I/O address space which
is 64K bytes in length.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• The 16 data bus lines D0 through D15 are actually
multiplexed with address lines A0 through A15
respectively. By multiplexed we mean that the bus work as
an address bus during first machine cycle and as a data bus
during next machine cycles. D15 is the MSB and D0 LSB.
• When acting as a data bus, they carry read/write data for
memory, input/output data for I/O devices, and interrupt
type codes from an interrupt controller.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

Vcc GND

INTR
A0-A15,A16/S3 – A19/S6
INTA
Interrupt Address / data bus
interface
TEST

D0 – D15
NMI
8086
ALE
RESET MPU
BHE / S7

M / IO Memory
HOLD I/O controls
DMA DT / R
interface
HLDA RD

WR

Vcc
DEN
Mode select
READY
MN / MX

CLK clock

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• Status signal : The four most significant address lines A19
through A16 are also multiplexed but in this case with
status signals S6 through S3. These status bits are output on
the bus at the same time that data are transferred over the
other bus lines.
• Bit S4 and S3 together from a 2 bit binary code that
identifies which of the 8086 internal segment registers are
used to generate the physical address that was output on
the address bus during the current bus cycle.
• Code S4S3 = 00 identifies a register known as extra
segment register as the source of the segment address.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

S4 S3 Segment Register

0 0 Extra

0 1 Stack

1 0 Code / none

1 1 Data

Memory segment status codes.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• Status line S5 reflects the status of another internal
characteristic of the 8086. It is the logic level of the
internal enable flag. The last status bit S6 is always at the
logic 0 level.
• Control Signals : The control signals are provided to
support the 8086 memory I/O interfaces. They control
functions such as when the bus is to carry a valid address
in which direction data are to be transferred over the bus,
when valid write data are on the bus and when to put read
data on the system bus.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• ALE is a pulse to logic 1 that signals external circuitry
when a valid address word is on the bus. This address must
be latched in external circuitry on the 1-to-0 edge of the
pulse at ALE.
• Another control signal that is produced during the bus
cycle is BHE bank high enable. Logic 0 on this used as a
memory enable signal for the most significant byte half of
the data bus D8 through D1. These lines also serves a
second function, which is as the S7 status line.
• Using the M/IO and DT/R lines, the 8086 signals which
type of bus cycle is in progress and in which direction data
are to be transferred over the bus.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• The logic level of M/IO tells external circuitry whether a

memory or I/O transfer is taking place over the bus. Logic
1 at this output signals a memory operation and logic 0 an
I/O operation.
• The direction of data transfer over the bus is signaled by
the logic level output at DT/R. When this line is logic 1
during the data transfer part of a bus cycle, the bus is in the
transmit mode. Therefore, data are either written into
memory or output to an I/O device.
• On the other hand, logic 0 at DT/R signals that the bus is in
the receive mode. This corresponds to reading data from
memory or input of data from an input port.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• The signal read RD and write WR indicates that a read bus

cycle or a write bus cycle is in progress. The 8086 switches
WR to logic 0 to signal external device that valid write or
output data are on the bus.
• On the other hand, RD indicates that the 8086 is
performing a read of data of the bus. During read
operations, one other control signal is also supplied. This is
DEN ( data enable) and it signals external devices when
they should put data on the bus.
• There is one other control signal that is involved with the
memory and I/O interface. This is the READY signal.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• READY signal is used to insert wait states into the bus

cycle such that it is extended by a number of clock periods.
This signal is provided by an external clock generator
device and can be supplied by the memory or I/O sub-
system to signal the 8086 when they are ready to permit
the data transfer to be completed.
• Interrupt signals : The key interrupt interface signals are
interrupt request (INTR) and interrupt acknowledge
( INTA).
• INTR is an input to the 8086 that can be used by an
external device to signal that it need to be serviced.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• Logic 1 at INTR represents an active interrupt request.

When an interrupt request has been recognized by the
8086, it indicates this fact to external circuit with pulse to
logic 0 at the INTA output.
• The TEST input is also related to the external interrupt
interface. Execution of a WAIT instruction causes the 8086
to check the logic level at the TEST input.
• If the logic 1 is found, the MPU suspend operation and
goes into the idle state. The 8086 no longer executes
instructions, instead it repeatedly checks the logic level of
the TEST input waiting for its transition back to logic 0.

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Minimum Mode Interface ( cont..)

• As TEST switches to 0, execution resume with the next

instruction in the program. This feature can be used to
synchronize the operation of the 8086 to an event in
external hardware.
• There are two more inputs in the interrupt interface: the
nonmaskable interrupt NMI and the reset interrupt RESET.
• On the 0-to-1 transition of NMI control is passed to a
nonmaskable interrupt service routine. The RESET input is
used to provide a hardware reset for the 8086. Switching
RESET to logic 0 initializes the internal register of the
8086 and initiates a reset service routine.

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Minimum Mode Interface.

• DMA Interface signals :The direct memory access DMA

interface of the 8086 minimum mode consist of the HOLD
and HLDA signals.
• When an external device wants to take control of the
system bus, it signals to the 8086 by switching HOLD to
the logic 1 level. At the completion of the current bus
cycle, the 8086 enters the hold state. In the hold state,
signal lines AD0 through AD15, A16/S3 through A19/S6,
BHE, M/IO, DT/R, RD, WR, DEN and INTR are all in the
high Z state. The 8086 signals external device that it is in
this state by switching its HLDA output to logic 1 level.

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Maximum Mode Interface

• When the 8086 is set for the maximum-mode

configuration, it provides signals for implementing a
multiprocessor / coprocessor system environment.
• By multiprocessor environment we mean that one
microprocessor exists in the system and that each
processor is executing its own program.
• Usually in this type of system environment, there are
some system resources that are common to all processors.
• They are called as global resources. There are also other
resources that are assigned to specific processors. These
are known as local or private resources.

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• Coprocessor also means that there is a second processor in

the system. In this two processor does not access the bus at
the same time.
• One passes the control of the system bus to the other and
then may suspend its operation.
• In the maximum-mode 8086 system, facilities are provided
for implementing allocation of global resources and
passing bus control to other microprocessor or
coprocessor.

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INIT
Multi Bus
S0 BUSY
S1 CBRQ
S2 8289 Bus BPRO
LOCK arbiter BPRN
CRQLCK
CLK RESB BREQ
Vcc GND SYSB/RESB
ANYREQ CLK AEN IOB BCLK

INTR LOCK CLK AEN IOB

S0 MRDC
TEST CLK AEN IOB MWTC
S1 S0
NMI AMWC
S2 S1 8288 Bus IORC
RESET S2 controller IOWC
DEN AIOWC
DT/ R INTA
8086 MPU ALE MCE / PDEN
DEN
DT / R
ALE
A0-A15,
A16/S3-A19/S6
MN/MX
D0 – D15
BHE
RD
READY
QS1, QS0
Local bus control
RQ / GT1 RQ / GT0 8086 Maximum mode Block Diagram
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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• 8288 Bus Controller – Bus Command and Control

Signals: 8086 does not directly provide all the signals that
are required to control the memory, I/O and interrupt
interfaces.
• Specially the WR, M/IO, DT/R, DEN, ALE and INTA,
signals are no longer produced by the 8086. Instead it
outputs three status signals S0, S1, S2 prior to the initiation
of each bus cycle. This 3- bit bus status code identifies
which type of bus cycle is to follow.
• S2S1S0 are input to the external bus controller device, the
bus controller generates the appropriately timed command
and control signals.

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

Status Inputs
CPU Cycles 8288
S2 S1 S0 Command
0 0 0 Interrupt Acknowledge INTA
0 0 1 Read I/O Port IORC
0 1 0 Write I/O Port IOWC, AIOWC
0 1 1 Halt None
1 0 0 Instruction Fetch MRDC

1 0 1 Read Memory MRDC

1 1 0 Write Memory MWTC, AMWC

1 1 1 Passive None

Bus Status Codes

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• The 8288 produces one or two of these eight command

signals for each bus cycles. For instance, when the 8086
outputs the code S2S1S0 equals 001, it indicates that an I/O
read cycle is to be performed.
• In the code 111 is output by the 8086, it is signaling that no
bus activity is to take place.
• The control outputs produced by the 8288 are DEN, DT/R
and ALE. These 3 signals provide the same functions as
those described for the minimum system mode. This set of
bus commands and control signals is compatible with the
Multibus and industry standard for interfacing
microprocessor systems.

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• 8289 Bus Arbiter – Bus Arbitration and Lock Signals :

This device permits processors to reside on the system bus.
It does this by implementing the Multibus arbitration
protocol in an 8086-based system.
• Addition of the 8288 bus controller and 8289 bus arbiter
frees a number of the 8086 pins for use to produce control
signals that are needed to support multiple processors.
• Bus priority lock ( LOCK) is one of these signals. It is
input to the bus arbiter together with status signals S0
through S2.

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• The output of 8289 are bus arbitration signals: bus busy

(BUSY), common bus request (CBRQ), bus priority out
(BPRO), bus priority in (BPRN), bus request (BREQ) and
bus clock (BCLK).
• They correspond to the bus exchange signals of the
Multibus and are used to lock other processor off the
system bus during the execution of an instruction by the
8086.
• In this way the processor can be assured of uninterrupted
access to common system resources such as global
memory.

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• Queue Status Signals : Two new signals that are produced

by the 8086 in the maximum-mode system are queue status
outputs QS0 and QS1. Together they form a 2-bit queue
status code, QS1QS0.
• Following table shows the four different queue status.

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QS1 QS0 Queue Status

0 (low) 0 No Operation. During the last clock cycle, nothing was

taken from the queue.
0 1 First Byte. The byte taken from the queue was the first
byte of the instruction.
1 (high) 0 Queue Empty. The queue has been reinitialized as a result
of the execution of a transfer instruction.
Subsequent Byte. The byte taken from the queue was a
1 1
subsequent byte of the instruction.

Queue status codes

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Maximum Mode Interface (cont..)

• Local Bus Control Signal – Request / Grant Signals: In

a maximum mode configuration, the minimum mode
HOLD, HLDA interface is also changed. These two are
replaced by request/grant lines RQ/ GT0 and RQ/ GT1,
respectively. They provide a prioritized bus access
mechanism for accessing the local bus.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System

• In a minimum mode 8086 system, the microprocessor

8086 is operated in minimum mode by strapping its
MN/MX pin to logic 1.
• In this mode, all the control signals are given out by the
microprocessor chip itself. There is a single
microprocessor in the minimum mode system.
• The remaining components in the system are latches,
transreceivers, clock generator, memory and I/O devices.
Some type of chip selection logic may be required for
selecting memory or I/O devices, depending upon the
address map of the system.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• Latches are generally buffered output D-type flip-flops like

74LS373 or 8282. They are used for separating the valid
address from the multiplexed address/data signals and are
controlled by the ALE signal generated by 8086.
• Transreceivers are the bidirectional buffers and some times
they are called as data amplifiers. They are required to
separate the valid data from the time multiplexed
address/data signals.
• They are controlled by two signals namely, DEN and
DT/R.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• The DEN signal indicates the direction of data, i.e. from or

to the processor. The system contains memory for the
monitor and users program storage.
• Usually, EPROM are used for monitor storage, while
RAM for users program storage. A system may contain I/O
devices.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• The clock generator generates the clock from the crystal

oscillator and then shapes it and divides to make it more
precise so that it can be used as an accurate timing
reference for the system.
• The clock generator also synchronizes some external signal
with the system clock. The general system organisation is
as shown in below fig.
• It has 20 address lines and 16 data lines, the 8086 CPU
requires three octal address latches and two octal data
buffers for the complete address and data separation.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• The working of the minimum mode configuration system

can be better described in terms of the timing diagrams
rather than qualitatively describing the operations.
• The opcode fetch and read cycles are similar. Hence the
timing diagram can be categorized in two parts, the first is
the timing diagram for read cycle and the second is the
timing diagram for write cycle.
• The read cycle begins in T1 with the assertion of address
latch enable (ALE) signal and also M / IO signal. During
the negative going edge of this signal, the valid address is
latched on the local bus.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• The BHE and A0 signals address low, high or both bytes.

From T1 to T4 , the M/IO signal indicates a memory or I/O
operation.
• At T2, the address is removed from the local bus and is
sent to the output. The bus is then tristated. The read (RD)
control signal is also activated in T2.
• The read (RD) signal causes the address device to enable
its data bus drivers. After RD goes low, the valid data is
available on the data bus.
• The addressed device will drive the READY line high.
When the processor returns the read signal to high level,
the addressed device will again tristate its bus drivers.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• A write cycle also begins with the assertion of ALE and

the emission of the address. The M/IO signal is again
asserted to indicate a memory or I/O operation. In T2, after
sending the address in T1, the processor sends the data to
be written to the addressed location.
• The data remains on the bus until middle of T4 state. The
WR becomes active at the beginning of T2 (unlike RD is
somewhat delayed in T2 to provide time for floating).
• The BHE and A0 signals are used to select the proper byte
or bytes of memory or I/O word to be read or write.
• The M/IO, RD and WR signals indicate the type of data
transfer as specified in table below.

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M / IO RD WR Transfer Type

0 0 1 I / O read
1 0 I/O write
0
1 0 1 Memory read
1 1 0 Memory write

Data Transfer table

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

Clk
T1 T2 T3 TW T4

ALE

ADD / STATUS BHE S7 – S3

A19 – A16
Bus reserved
ADD / DATA A15 – A0 for data in D15 – D0

RD

DEN

DT / R

Read Cycle Timing Diagram for Minimum Mode

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

T1 T2 T3 TW T4 T1

Clk

ALE

BHE S7 – S3
ADD / STATUS A19 – A16

ADD / DATA A15 – A0 Valid data D15 – D0

WR

DEN

DT / R

Write Cycle Timing Diagram for Minimum Mode

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• Hold Response sequence: The HOLD pin is checked at

leading edge of each clock pulse. If it is received active by
the processor before T4 of the previous cycle or during T1
state of the current cycle, the CPU activates HLDA in the
next clock cycle and for succeeding bus cycles, the bus
will be given to another requesting master.
• The control of the bus is not regained by the processor
until the requesting master does not drop the HOLD pin
low. When the request is dropped by the requesting master,
the HLDA is dropped by the processor at the trailing edge
of the next clock.

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Minimum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

Clk

HOLD

HLDA

Bus Request and Bus Grant Timings in Minimum Mode System

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Maximum Mode 8086 System

• In the maximum mode, the 8086 is operated by strapping

the MN/MX pin to ground.
• In this mode, the processor derives the status signal S2, S1,
S0. Another chip called bus controller derives the control
signal using this status information .
• In the maximum mode, there may be more than one
microprocessor in the system configuration.
• The components in the system are same as in the minimum
mode system.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System (cont..)

• The basic function of the bus controller chip IC8288, is to

derive control signals like RD and WR ( for memory and
I/O devices), DEN, DT/R, ALE etc. using the information
by the processor on the status lines.
• The bus controller chip has input lines S2, S1, S0 and CLK.
These inputs to 8288 are driven by CPU.
• It derives the outputs ALE, DEN, DT/R, MRDC, MWTC,
AMWC, IORC, IOWC and AIOWC. The AEN, IOB and
CEN pins are specially useful for multiprocessor systems.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

• AEN and IOB are generally grounded. CEN pin is usually

tied to +5V. The significance of the MCE/PDEN output
depends upon the status of the IOB pin.
• If IOB is grounded, it acts as master cascade enable to
control cascade 8259A, else it acts as peripheral data
enable used in the multiple bus configurations.
• INTA pin used to issue two interrupt acknowledge pulses
to the interrupt controller or to an interrupting device.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

• IORC, IOWC are I/O read command and I/O write

command signals respectively . These signals enable an IO
interface to read or write the data from or to the address
port.
• The MRDC, MWTC are memory read command and
memory write command signals respectively and may be
used as memory read or write signals.
• All these command signals instructs the memory to accept
or send data from or to the bus.
• For both of these write command signals, the advanced
signals namely AIOWC and AMWTC are available.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

• They also serve the same purpose, but are activated one
clock cycle earlier than the IOWC and MWTC signals
respectively.
• The maximum mode system timing diagrams are divided
in two portions as read (input) and write (output) timing
diagrams.
• The address/data and address/status timings are similar to
the minimum mode.
• ALE is asserted in T1, just like minimum mode. The only
difference lies in the status signal used and the available
control and advanced command signals.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

Clk DEN
S0 DT/ R Control bus
S1 8288 IORC
S2 IOWTC
AEN MWTC
Reset Reset S0
Clk IOB
S1 CEN ALE MRDC
Generator Clk
S2
RDY 8284 Ready + 5V

8086
CLK
AD6-AD15 A/D Address bus
A16-A19 Latches

Add bus
DT/R
BHE A0
DIR
Data CS0H CS0L RD CS WR RD
buffer WR
DEN G Memory Peripherals

Data bus

Maximum Mode 8086 System.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

• Here the only difference between in timing diagram

between minimum mode and maximum mode is the status
signals used and the available control and advanced
command signals.
• R0, S1, S2 are set at the beginning of bus cycle.8288 bus
controller will output a pulse as on the ALE and apply a
required signal to its DT / R pin during T1.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

• In T2, 8288 will set DEN=1 thus enabling transceivers, and

for an input it will activate MRDC or IORC. These signals
are activated until T4. For an output, the AMWC or
AIOWC is activated from T2 to T4 and MWTC or IOWC is
activated from T3 to T4.
• The status bit S0 to S2 remains active until T3 and become
passive during T3 and T4.
• If reader input is not activated before T3, wait state will be
inserted between T3 and T4.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

• Timings for RQ/ GT Signals :The request/grant response

sequence contains a series of three pulses. The
request/grant pins are checked at each rising pulse of clock
input.
• When a request is detected and if the condition for HOLD
request are satisfied, the processor issues a grant pulse over
the RQ/GT pin immediately during T4 (current) or T1
(next) state.
• When the requesting master receives this pulse, it accepts
the control of the bus, it sends a release pulse to the
processor using RQ/GT pin.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

One bus cycle
T1 T2 T3 T4 T1

Clk

AL
E
S2 – S0 Active Inactive Active

Add/Status BHE, A19 – A16 S7 – S3

Add/Data A15 – A0 D15 – D0

MRDC

DT / R

DEN

Memory Read Timing in Maximum Mode

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

One bus cycle
T1 T2 T3 T4 T1

Clk

ALE

S2 – S0 Active Inactive Active

ADD/STATUS BHE S7 – S3

ADD/DATA A15-A0 Data out D15 – D0

AMWC or
AIOWC
MWTC or IOWC

DT / R high
DEN

Memory Write Timing in Maximum mode.

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Maximum Mode 8086 System ( cont..)

Clk

RQ / GT

Another master CPU grant bus Master releases bus

request bus access

RQ/GT Timings in Maximum Mode.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• The 8086 has four groups of the user accessible internal

registers. They are the instruction pointer, four data
registers, four pointer and index register, four segment
registers.
• The 8086 has a total of fourteen 16-bit registers including a
16 bit register called the status register, with 9 of bits
implemented for status and control flags.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Most of the registers contain data/instruction offsets within

64 KB memory segment. There are four different 64 KB
segments for instructions, stack, data and extra data. To
specify where in 1 MB of processor memory these 4
segments are located the processor uses four segment
registers:
• Code segment (CS) is a 16-bit register containing address
of 64 KB segment with processor instructions. The
processor uses CS segment for all accesses to instructions
referenced by instruction pointer (IP) register. CS register
cannot be changed directly. The CS register is
automatically updated during far jump, far call and far
return instructions.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Stack segment (SS) is a 16-bit register containing address

of 64KB segment with program stack. By default, the
processor assumes that all data referenced by the stack
pointer (SP) and base pointer (BP) registers is located in
the stack segment. SS register can be changed directly
using POP instruction.
• Data segment (DS) is a 16-bit register containing address
of 64KB segment with program data. By default, the
processor assumes that all data referenced by general
registers (AX, BX, CX, DX) and index register (SI, DI) is
located in the data segment. DS register can be changed
directly using POP and LDS instructions.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Extra segment (ES) is a 16-bit register containing address

of 64KB segment, usually with program data. By default,
the processor assumes that the DI register references the
ES segment in string manipulation instructions. ES register
can be changed directly using POP and LES instructions.
• It is possible to change default segments used by general
and index registers by prefixing instructions with a CS, SS,
DS or ES prefix.
• All general registers of the 8086 microprocessor can be
used for arithmetic and logic operations. The general
registers are:

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Accumulator register consists of two 8-bit registers AL

and AH, which can be combined together and used as a 16-
bit register AX. AL in this case contains the low-order byte
of the word, and AH contains the high-order byte.
Accumulator can be used for I/O operations and string
manipulation.
• Base register consists of two 8-bit registers BL and BH,
which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit
register BX. BL in this case contains the low-order byte of
the word, and BH contains the high-order byte. BX register
usually contains a data pointer used for based, based
indexed or register indirect addressing.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Count register consists of two 8-bit registers CL and CH,
which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit
register CX. When combined, CL register contains the
low-order byte of the word, and CH contains the high-
order byte. Count register can be used in Loop, shift/rotate
instructions and as a counter in string manipulation,.
• Data register consists of two 8-bit registers DL and DH,
which can be combined together and used as a 16-bit
register DX. When combined, DL register contains the
low-order byte of the word, and DH contains the high-
order byte. Data register can be used as a port number in
I/O operations. In integer 32-bit multiply and divide
instruction the DX register contains high-order word of the
initial or resulting number.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• The following registers are both general and index

registers:
• Stack Pointer (SP) is a 16-bit register pointing to program
stack.
• Base Pointer (BP) is a 16-bit register pointing to data in
stack segment. BP register is usually used for based, based
indexed or register indirect addressing.
• Source Index (SI) is a 16-bit register. SI is used for
indexed, based indexed and register indirect addressing, as
well as a source data address in string manipulation
instructions.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Destination Index (DI) is a 16-bit register. DI is used for

indexed, based indexed and register indirect addressing, as
well as a destination data address in string manipulation
instructions.
Other registers:
• Instruction Pointer (IP) is a 16-bit register.
• Flags is a 16-bit register containing 9 one bit flags.
• Overflow Flag (OF) - set if the result is too large positive
number, or is too small negative number to fit into
destination operand.

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Internal Registers of 8086 (cont..)

• Direction Flag (DF) - if set then string manipulation

instructions will auto-decrement index registers. If cleared
then the index registers will be auto-incremented.
• Interrupt-enable Flag (IF) - setting this bit enables
maskable interrupts.
• Single-step Flag (TF) - if set then single-step interrupt will
occur after the next instruction.
• Sign Flag (SF) - set if the most significant bit of the result
is set.
• Zero Flag (ZF) - set if the result is zero.

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Internal Registers of 8086

• Auxiliary carry Flag (AF) - set if there was a carry from

or borrow to bits 0-3 in the AL register.
• Parity Flag (PF) - set if parity (the number of "1" bits) in
the low-order byte of the result is even.
• Carry Flag (CF) - set if there was a carry from or borrow
to the most significant bit during last result calculation.

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Addressing Modes (cont..)

• Implied - the data value/data address is implicitly
associated with the instruction.
• Register - references the data in a register or in a register
pair.
• Immediate - the data is provided in the instruction.
• Direct - the instruction operand specifies the memory
address where data is located.
• Register indirect - instruction specifies a register
containing an address, where data is located. This
addressing mode works with SI, DI, BX and BP registers.
• Based :- 8-bit or 16-bit instruction operand is added to the
contents of a base register (BX or BP), the resulting value
is a pointer to location where data resides.

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Addressing Modes
• Indexed :- 8-bit or 16-bit instruction operand is added to
the contents of an index register (SI or DI), the resulting
value is a pointer to location where data resides.
• Based Indexed :- the contents of a base register (BX or
BP) is added to the contents of an index register (SI or DI),
the resulting value is a pointer to location where data
resides.
• Based Indexed with displacement :- 8-bit or 16-bit
instruction operand is added to the contents of a base
register (BX or BP) and index register (SI or DI), the
resulting value is a pointer to location where data resides.

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Memory (cont..)
• Program, data and stack memories occupy the same
memory space. As the most of the processor instructions
use 16-bit pointers the processor can effectively address
only 64 KB of memory.
• To access memory outside of 64 KB the CPU uses special
segment registers to specify where the code, stack and data
64 KB segments are positioned within 1 MB of memory
(see the "Registers" section below).
• 16-bit pointers and data are stored as:
address: low-order byte
address+1: high-order byte

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Memory (cont..)
• 32-bit addresses are stored in "segment: offset" format as:
address: low-order byte of segment
address+1: high-order byte of segment
address+2: low-order byte of offset
address+3: high-order byte of offset
• Physical memory address pointed by segment: offset pair
is calculated as:
• address = (<segment> * 16) + <offset>

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Memory (cont..)
• Program memory - program can be located anywhere in
memory. Jump and call instructions can be used for short
jumps within currently selected 64 KB code segment, as
well as for far jumps anywhere within 1 MB of memory.
• All conditional jump instructions can be used to jump
within approximately +127 to -127 bytes from current
instruction.
• Data memory - the processor can access data in any one
out of 4 available segments, which limits the size of
accessible memory to 256 KB (if all four segments point to
different 64 KB blocks).

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Memory (cont..)
• Accessing data from the Data, Code, Stack or Extra
segments can be usually done by prefixing instructions
with the DS:, CS:, SS: or ES: (some registers and
instructions by default may use the ES or SS segments
instead of DS segment).
• Word data can be located at odd or even byte boundaries.
The processor uses two memory accesses to read 16-bit
word located at odd byte boundaries. Reading word data
from even byte boundaries requires only one memory
access.

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Memory
• Stack memory can be placed anywhere in memory. The
stack can be located at odd memory addresses, but it is not
recommended for performance reasons (see "Data
Memory" above).
Reserved locations:
• 0000h - 03FFh are reserved for interrupt vectors. Each
interrupt vector is a 32-bit pointer in format segment:
offset.
• FFFF0h - FFFFFh - after RESET the processor always
starts program execution at the FFFF0h address.

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Interrupts (cont..)
The processor has the following interrupts:
• INTR is a maskable hardware interrupt. The interrupt can
be enabled/disabled using STI/CLI instructions or using
more complicated method of updating the FLAGS register
with the help of the POPF instruction.
• When an interrupt occurs, the processor stores FLAGS
register into stack, disables further interrupts, fetches from
the bus one byte representing interrupt type, and jumps to
interrupt processing routine address of which is stored in
location 4 * <interrupt type>. Interrupt processing routine
should return with the IRET instruction.

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Interrupts (cont..)
• NMI is a non-maskable interrupt. Interrupt is processed in
the same way as the INTR interrupt. Interrupt type of the
NMI is 2, i.e. the address of the NMI processing routine is
stored in location 0008h. This interrupt has higher priority
then the maskable interrupt.
• Software interrupts can be caused by:
• INT instruction - breakpoint interrupt. This is a type 3
interrupt.
• INT <interrupt number> instruction - any one interrupt
from available 256 interrupts.
• INTO instruction - interrupt on overflow

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Interrupts
• Single-step interrupt - generated if the TF flag is set. This
is a type 1 interrupt. When the CPU processes this
interrupt it clears TF flag before calling the interrupt
processing routine.
• Processor exceptions: Divide Error (Type 0), Unused
Opcode (type 6) and Escape opcode (type 7).
• Software interrupt processing is the same as for the
hardware interrupts.

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