Intel 8086

MICROPROCESSOR
ARCHITECTURE

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 Features
• It is a 16-bit μp.
• 8086 has a 20 bit address bus can access up
to 220 memory locations (1 MB).
• It can support up to 64K I/O ports.
• It provides 14, 16 -bit registers.
• Word size is 16 bits and double word size is
4 bytes.
• It has multiplexed address and data bus
AD0- AD15 and A16 – A19.

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• 8086 is designed to operate in two modes,
Minimum and Maximum.

• It can prefetches up to 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.

• Address ranges from 00000H to FFFFFH

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Intel 8086 Internal Architecture

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Internal architecture of 8086

• 8086 has two blocks BIU and EU.

• The BIU handles all transactions of data and
addresses on the buses for 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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• 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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EXECUTION UNIT
• Decodes instructions fetched by the BIU
• Generate control signals,
• Executes instructions.

The main parts are:

• Control Circuitry
• Instruction decoder
• ALU
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EXECUTION UNIT – General Purpose Registers
16 bits

8 bits 8 bits

AH AL
AX Accumulator

BH BL Base
BX
CH CL Count
CX

DX DH DL
Data
SP Stack Pointer
Pointer
BP Base Pointer

SI
Source Index
Index
DI Destination Index
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EXECUTION UNIT – General Purpose Registers

Register Purpose
AX Word multiply, word divide, word I /O
AL Byte multiply, byte divide, byte I/O, decimal arithmetic

AH Byte multiply, byte divide

BX Store address information

CX String operation, loops

CL Variable shift and rotate

DX Word multiply, word divide, indirect I/O

(Used to hold I/O address during I/O instructions. If the result is more than
16-bits, the lower order 16-bits are stored in accumulator and higher order
16-bits are stored in DX register) 9
 Pointer And Index Registers
• used to keep offset addresses.
• Used in various forms of memory addressing.
• In the case of SP and BP the default reference to
form a physical address is the Stack Segment (SS-
will be discussed under the BIU)
• The index registers (SI & DI) and the BX generally
default to the Data segment register (DS).
SP: Stack pointer
– Used with SS to access the stack segment
BP: Base Pointer
– Primarily used to access data on the stack 10
– Can be used to access data in other segments
• SI: Source Index register
– is required for some string operations
– When string operations are performed, the SI register
points to memory locations in the data segment which is
addressed by the DS register. Thus, SI is associated with
the DS in string operations.

• DI: Destination Index register

– is also required for some string operations.
– When string operations are performed, the DI register
points to memory locations in the data segment which is
addressed by the ES register. Thus, DI is associated with
the ES in string operations.

• The SI and the DI registers may also be used to access data

stored in arrays 11
 EXECUTION UNIT – Flag Register
• A flag is a flip flop which indicates some conditions produced by
the execution of an instruction or controls certain operations of
the EU .
• In 8086 The EU contains
 a 16 bit flag register
9 of the 16 are active flags and remaining 7 are undefined.
 6 flags indicates some conditions- status flags
3 flags –control Flags

U U U U OF DF IF TF SF ZF U AF U PF U CF

Sign Auxiliary Carry

Interrupt Trap Zero Parity
Over flow Direction

U - Unused 12
EXECUTION UNIT – Flag Register

Flag Purpose
Carry (CF) Holds the carry after addition or the borrow after subtraction.
Also indicates some error conditions, as dictated by some
programs and procedures .
Parity (PF) PF=0;odd parity, PF=1;even parity.

Auxiliary (AF) Holds the carry (half – carry) after addition or borrow after
subtraction between bit positions 3 and 4 of the result
(for example, in BCD addition or subtraction.)
Zero (ZF) Shows the result of the arithmetic or logic operation.
Z=1; result is zero. Z=0; The result is 0
Sign (SF) Holds the sign of the result after an arithmetic/logic
instruction
execution. S=1; negative, S=0 13
 Flag Purpose
A control flag.
Trap (TF) Enables the trapping through an on-chip debugging
feature.
A control flag.
Interrupt (IF) Controls the operation of the INTR (interrupt request)
I=0; INTR pin disabled. I=1; INTR pin enabled.
A control flag.
Direction (DF) It selects either the increment or decrement mode for DI
and /or SI registers during the string instructions.
Overflow occurs when signed numbers are added or
Overflow (OF) subtracted. An overflow indicates the result has exceeded
the capacity of the Machine

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Execution unit – Flag Register
• Six of the flags are status indicators reflecting
properties of the last arithmetic or logical instruction.
• For example, if register AL = 7Fh and the instruction
ADD AL,1 is executed then the following happen
AL = 80h
CF = 0; there is no carry out of bit 7
PF = 0; 80h has an odd number of ones
AF = 1; there is a carry out of bit 3 into bit 4
ZF = 0; the result is not zero
SF = 1; bit seven is one
OF = 1; the sign bit has changed
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BUS INTERFACE UNIT (BIU)
Contains
• 6-byte Instruction Queue (Q)
• The Segment Registers (CS, DS, ES, SS).
• The Instruction Pointer (IP).
• The Address Summing block (Σ)

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 THE QUEUE (Q)

• The BIU uses a mechanism known as an

instruction stream queue to implement a pipeline
architecture.

• This queue permits pre-fetch of up to 6 bytes of

instruction code. Whenever 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 pre-fetching the next
sequential instruction.
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Segmented Memory Physical Memory

00000
The memory in an 8086/88
based system is organized as
segmented memory. Code segment (64KB)

The CPU 8086 is able to Data segment (64KB)

1 MB
address 1Mbyte of memory.
Extra segment (64KB)
The Complete physically
available memory may be Stack segment (64KB)
divided into a number of logical
segments.
FFFFF

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• The size of each segment is 64 KB
• A segment may be located any where in the memory
• Each of these segments can be used for a specific
function.

– Code segment is used for storing the instructions.

– The stack segment is used as a stack and it is used to store the
return addresses.
– The data and extra segments are used for storing data byte.

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• The 4 segments are Code, Data, Extra and Stack segments.
• A Segment is a 64kbyte block of memory.
• The 16 bit contents of the segment registers in the BIU
actually point to the starting location of a particular segment.
• Segments may be overlapped or non-overlapped

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Segment registers

• In 8086/88 the processors have 4 segments

registers
• Code Segment register (CS), Data Segment
register (DS), Extra Segment register (ES) and
Stack Segment (SS) register.
• All are 16 bit registers.

• Each of the Segment registers store the upper 16

bit address of the starting address of the
corresponding segments.

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 Memory Address Generation
Offset Value (16 bits)

Segment Register (16 bits) 0000

Adder

Physical Address (20 Bits)

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• The following examples shows the CS:IP scheme of
address formation:

CS 34BA IP 8AB4 Code segment

34BA0
Inserting a hexadecimal 0H (0000B)
with the CSR or shifting the CSR 8AB4 (offset)
four binary digits left
3D654

34BA0(CS)+
8AB4(IP)
3 D 6 5 4 (next address)
44B9F

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Segment and Address register
combination

• CS:IP

• SS:SP SS:BP

• DS:BX DS:SI

• DS:DI (for other than string operations)

• ES:DI (for string operations)

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Summary of Registers & Pipeline of 8086 µP

EU BIU

AX AH AL
IP
BX BH BL
Fetch &
CX CH CL D
store code CS DS ES SS
DH DL E
DX bytes in
C C
O PIPELINE C
O D PIPELINE O IP BX DI SP
SP D E (or) D DI BP
E O QUEUE E
BP I SI
R U
SI T N

DI
Default Assignment
Timing
FLAGS ALU control

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