Microprocessors Questions:

2 Marks:

1. What is a micro processor?

2. What is control bus? How it is different from address bus and data bus?
3. What are registers ?
4. Give any four instructions that use direct addressing in 8085?
5. What are the different categories of instruction set in 8085?
6. Explain the DAA instruction of 8085. Illustrate with examples?
7. How many states are there in memory read cycle? Explain.
8. Explain Fetch cycle.
9. Explain the unconditional call instruction of the 8085 microprocessor with suitable
example.
10. List the hardware interrupts of 8085 in the decreasing order of their priority.
11. Explain Mode 5 of 8254 counter.
12. What is a DMA controller?
13. Explain the functional components of execution unit (8086 microprocessor)?
14. What is the function of the BIU?
15. What is the function of the 8086 BX register?
16. What is 8 bit micro processor? Give three examples.
17. List and explain different buses in micro processor.
18. What is a flag register? What are its functions?
19. Give six examples of 8085 one byte instruction.
20. Give any four instructions that use register indirect addressing in 8085.
21. Explain XCHG instruction of 8085. Illustrate with example.
22. Explain the CMA instruction of 8085. Illustrate with examples.
23. Explain how can you set up conditional loop using the 8085 microprocessor
instructions. Illustrate with example.
24. What is meant by a subroutine return? Explain the steps involved during the
execution of the subroutine return instruction with suitable example.
25. List the software interrupts of 8085.
26. Explain Mode 3 of 8254 counter.
27. What are the two internal functional units of 8086 microprocessor?
28. What is the function of the M/IO signal in 8086?
29. What is the function of the 8086 AX register?
30. What is a bus? What are the principal buses in micro processor?
31. Name and explain 16 bit registers of 8085.
32. What is an opcode?explain with example?
 33. Explain MOV rd,rs instructions of 8085. Illustrate with examples.
34. How many states are there in memory write cycle? Explain?
35. What is a timing diagram?
36. What is meant by a subroutine call? Explain the steps involved during the execution
of the subroutine call instruction with suitable example.
37. Explain Mode 0 of 8254 counter.
38. Explain DMA controller.
39. What are the functional units of the BIU? 7. What is pipelining?
40. What are the functions of the 8086 CS, DS. SS and ES registers?
41. What is meant by immediate addressing in 8086? Give example
42. What is a micro controller? How does it different from micro processor?
43. What is meant by address multiplexing in 8085?
44. What is control bus?
45. Give six examples of 8085 three byte instruction
46. What is meant by immediate addressing mode?
47. Explain the RLC and RRC instructions of 8085. Illustrate with examples?
48. How many states are there in memory read cycle?explain?
49. Explain Execution Cycle
50. Explain, with suitable examples, how are subroutine call and return implemented
using the 8085 instructions
51. What are software interrupts? How does it differ from the hardware interrupts?
52. Explain Mode 1 of 8254 counter?
53. What is DMA?
54. What is the function of the INTA signal in 8086?
5 Marks:
1. Differentiate between micro processor and micro controller.
2. Describe general architecture of micro processor.
3. Explain one byte, 2 byte and 3 byte instructions with example.
4. Explain the subroutine call and return instructions of 8085 microprocessor.
5. Write an assembly program to exchange the contents of memory locations 2000H
and 4000H.
6. Explain looping in 8085.
7. Describe 20 bit physical address calculation mechanism in 8086.
8. Describe the addressing modes of 8086.
9. What is the difference between microprocessor and micro computer?
10. Explain the architecture of microprocessor.
11. Explain various categories of instructions in 8085 microprocessor.
12. Describe the opcode fetch machine cycle with a neat timing diagram.
 13. Write an assembly program to find the l’s complement of the number stored at
memory location 4400H and store the complemented number at memory location
4300H.
14. Explain the process of DMA.
15. Explain different functional components of 8086 execution unit.
16. Explain addressing modes of the 8085 microprocessor.
17. Explain the logic instructions of 8085 with example.
18. What is meant by looping in assembly language?
19. What are the features of 8086 microprocessor?
20. Explain the internal architecture of 8086 microprocessor with a block diagram
21. Describe general architecture of computer.
22. Explain the pin out diagram 8085 microprocessor.
23. Explain different categories of instructions in 8085 microprocessor.
24. Explain the data transfer instructions of 8085 microprocessor with example.
25. Explain the addressing mode of 8086 with examples
10 Marks:
1. Explain pin diagram of 8085 with neat diagram.
2. Explain the data transfer instructions of 8085 microprocessor.
3. Describe the logic instructions of 8085.
4. Describe the internal architecture of 8086 microprocessor with diagram
5. Describe the arithmetic instructions of 8085 microprocessor with suitable
examples.
6. Explain the subroutine call and return instructions of microprocessor with suitable
examples.
7. Describe the addressing mode of 8086
8. Explain pin diagram of 8085 with neat diagram.
9. Describe the branch instructions of 8085 microprocessor suitable examples.
10. Explain the functions of different registers in 8086. Explain with examples, various
flags of 8086 and their conditions in various instance.
11. Explain internal architecture of 8085.
12. Explain the logic instructions of 8085.
13. Explain the functions of different registers in 8086.Explain with examples, various
flags of 8086 and their conditions in various instance