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Microprocessor - 8086 Overview
8086 Microprocessor is an enhanced version of 8085Microprocessor that was designed by
Intel in 1976. It is a 16-bit Microprocessor having 20 address lines and16 data lines that
provides up to 1MB storage. It consists of powerful instruction set, which provides
operations like multiplication and division easily.
It supports two modes of operation, i.e. Maximum mode and Minimum mode. Maximum
mode is suitable for system having multiple processors and Minimum mode is suitable for
system having a single processor.
Features of 8086
The most prominent features of a 8086 microprocessor are as follows −
It has an instruction queue, which is capable of storing six instruction bytes from
the memory resulting in faster processing.
It was the first 16-bit processor having 16-bit ALU, 16-bit registers, internal data
bus, and 16-bit external data bus resulting in faster processing.
It is available in 3 versions based on the frequency of operation −
8086 → 5MHz
8086-2 → 8MHz
(c)8086-1 → 10 MHz
It uses two stages of pipelining, i.e. Fetch Stage and Execute Stage, which
improves performance.
Fetch stage can prefetch up to 6 bytes of instructions and stores them in the
queue.
Execute stage executes these instructions.
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It has 256 vectored interrupts.
It consists of 29,000 transistors.
Comparison between 8085 & 8086 Microprocessor
Size − 8085 is 8-bit microprocessor, whereas 8086 is 16-bit microprocessor.
Address Bus − 8085 has 16-bit address bus while 8086 has 20-bit address bus.
Memory − 8085 can access up to 64Kb, whereas 8086 can access up to 1 Mb of
memory.
Instruction − 8085 doesnt have an instruction queue, whereas 8086 has an
instruction queue.
Pipelining − 8085 doesnt support a pipelined architecture while 8086 supports a
pipelined architecture.
I/O − 8085 can address 2^8 = 256 I/O's, whereas 8086 can access 2^16 =
65,536 I/O's.
Cost − The cost of 8085 is low whereas that of 8086 is high.
Architecture of 8086
The following diagram depicts the architecture of a 8086 Microprocessor −
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