Microprocessor & Microcontroller - Telecommunication Inspector Exam Guide
([Link] Level Preparation Plan)
1. Priority Analysis
Highest weightage expected:
- 8085/8086 Architecture, Instruction Set, Addressing Modes, Interrupts and Timing
- 8051 Microcontroller fundamentals
- ARM architecture basics
- Memory interfacing concepts
Suggested question distribution:
- 50-60%: 8085/8086 + addressing + interrupts
- 20-25%: 8051
- 10-15%: ARM
- 10%: Memory interfacing
STUDY SEQUENCE
1) 8085 MICROPROCESSOR (Highest Priority)
Architecture:
- Block diagram of 8085
- ALU
- Accumulator
- General purpose registers
- Flag register (Sign, Zero, Auxiliary Carry, Parity, Carry)
- Program Counter
- Stack Pointer
- Interrupt control
- Serial I/O
Instruction Set:
Study categories:
- Data transfer
- Arithmetic
- Logical
- Branch
- Machine control
Addressing Modes:
- Immediate
- Register
- Direct
- Indirect
- Implied
Timing:
- T-state
- Machine cycle
- Opcode fetch
- Memory read/write cycle
Exam focus:
- Register functions
- Flags
- Instruction identification
- Timing questions
2) 8086 MICROPROCESSOR
Architecture:
- BIU and EU
- Registers:
AX, BX, CX, DX
CS, DS, SS, ES
IP and FLAGS
Important concepts:
- Memory segmentation
- Physical address calculation
Instruction basics:
- Data transfer
- Arithmetic
- Logical
- Branch instructions
Addressing modes:
- Immediate
- Register
- Direct
- Based
- Indexed
- Based indexed
Exam focus:
- BIU/EU role
- Segment address questions
- Difference between 8085 and 8086
3) ADDRESSING MODES, INTERRUPTS AND TIMING
Addressing:
Understand how processor finds operands.
Interrupts:
- Hardware vs software interrupts
- Maskable and non-maskable
- Priority concept
8085 interrupts:
- TRAP
- RST 7.5
- RST 6.5
- RST 5.5
- INTR
Timing:
- Instruction cycle
- Machine cycle
- T-states
Exam focus:
- Highest priority interrupt
- Interrupt type
- Timing calculations
4) 8051 MICROCONTROLLER FUNDAMENTALS
Study:
- Microprocessor vs microcontroller
- 8051 block diagram
- RAM and ROM organization
- I/O ports
- Timers
- Serial communication
Registers:
- Accumulator
- B register
- PSW
- Stack Pointer
- DPTR
Interrupts:
- Timer
- Serial
- External interrupts
Exam focus:
- Architecture based questions
- Register functions
5) ARM ARCHITECTURE
Study only concepts:
- RISC concept
- ARM features
- Registers
- Pipeline
- CPSR/SPSR
- Basic ARM instructions
Do not spend excessive time here.
6) MEMORY INTERFACING
Conceptual preparation:
- Memory map
- Address decoding
- Chip select
- RAM/ROM interfacing
- Address line calculation basics
Final Revision Strategy:
First complete:
1. 8085
2. 8086
3. Addressing modes + interrupts + timing
4. 8051
5. ARM
6. Memory interfacing
Practice:
- Architecture diagrams
- Instruction based questions
- Numerical problems on timing and addresses
- Previous year [Link] level questions