Question 1: Write down the main purpose of MN/Mx pin? Illustrate.
Question 2: Describe the main concepts of the segmented memory? Also write down its advantages?
Question 3: Describe the concept of pipelining in the 8086. Describe its benefits and drawbacks.
Question 4: Describe the interrupt system of Intel 8086. What do you mean by interrupt pointer? What is 'type' of an interrupt?
Question 5: Describe the different addressing modes of 8086. What are displacement, base and index? Illustrate an effective address or offset?
Question 6: What is the basic difference between minimum and maximum modes of the 8086? How are such modes chosen?
Question 7: Draw and describe the architecture of 8086 microprocessor.
Question 8: Write an 8086 program to add two 16-bit numbers in CX and DX and store the outcome in location 0500H addressed by DI.
Question 9: Describe the concept of Direct Memory Access (or DMA).
Question 10: Illustrate the functions of Handshake signals.