Microprocessor - 8085 Internal Architecture

Quaid -E- Awam University of Engineering, Science and
Technology Nawabshah
Lecture # 7
MICROPROCESSOR AND INTERFACING
Department of Computer Systems Engineering

8085 internal architecture
8085 pin diagram
8085 architecture
Control lines
 Clock lines
 Read/Write lines
 Input / Output lines
 Interrupt lines
 Reset lines
 Bus control lines
Pin categories
 Power supply and clock signals

 Data bus
 Address bus
 Serial I/O ports
 Control and status signals
 Interrupts and externally generated signals
 Direct memory access
Address bus category
 The address bus has 16 lines; it can carry 16 bits at a

time. However, out of 16, 8 are multiplexed with the
data bus and the leftover 8 are separately shown by
pin number 21 to 28 in the pin configuration.
 These are used to carry the address of memory
 It is unidirectional in nature.
 These are denoted by A8 to A15 that represents the 8

MSB of the memory location or input-output address.
Data bus category
 The data bus of the 8085 microprocessor is 8 bits.

 These 8-bit data bus lines are multiplexed with the 8-bit
address bus.
 These are shown by pin number 12 to 19. The address bus

is denoted by A whereas the data bus is denoted by D.
 The pin configuration denotes the lower order multiplexed

address and data bus bits from AD0 to AD7.
Power supply category
 VCC –An external power supply of + 5 V is provided at

this pin.
 VSS –This pin shows the grounded connection of the
microprocessor.
 X1 and X2 – These 2 pins are connected with a crystal
to maintain the internal frequency of the clock
generator.
 CLK (OUT) – It acts as the system clock that keeps
the record of time duration required by each
operation to get completed.
Control and status signal
 ALE is an acronym for address latch enable
 We know that 8 lower order bits of the 16-bit address

bus are multiplexed with the 8-bit data bus.
 This pin gets enabled at the time when the address is

present at the multiplexed address and data bus.
 Otherwise, it gets disabled showing the absence of an
address on the bus.
 RD: Low signal in this pin shows the read operation
either from I/O devices or from the memory unit.
 Thereby indicating that the data bus is now in a state or
position to accept the data from the memory or I/O
devices.
 WR: Low signal in this pin represents the write

operation at the memory or I/O devices.
 This indicates that the data present in the data bus is to
be written into the desired memory address or I/O
device by the processor.
 IO/ Indicates the selection of a memory

address or input-output device.
 This shows whether the read/write operation
is to be carried out at the memory location or
at the I/O device.
 The low signal at this pin shows that operation
is performing over memory location.
 As against, a high signal at this pin represents
the operation at I/O device.
Status signal
 S0 and S1 – The pins S0 and S1 represent the status

signal.
 These signals show the type of recent operation of
the microprocessor.
 The table below represents the status of the data bus
under different conditions:
Status signal
 RESET IN – An active low signal. This signal is used

to reset the microprocessor by setting the program
counter to zero.
 Program counter is reset to 0000H.
 RESET OUT – This signal is used to reset all the

connected devices/ peripheral devices when the
microprocessor is reset.
Ready Signal
 READY: This signal indicates that the device is ready

to send or receive data. If READY is low, then the CPU
has to wait for READY to go high.
 If READY is high during a read or write cycle, it

indicates that the memory or peripheral is ready to
send or receive data.
 If READY is low during the read or write cycle, the
CPU interprets this as a request to enter the wait
state.
DMA SIGNALS
 HOLD : indicates the CPU that an another device want to use address
and data bus.
 Once the CPU receive the HOLD signal , CPU will complete current data
transfer on the busses.
 Internal processing can continue.

 The processor can regain the bus only after the HOLD is removed.
 HLDA: Hold Acknowledge: Indicates that the CPU has received the
HOLD.
Serial communication Signals
 SID - Serial Input Data : The single bit of data on this

line is loaded into the MSB position accumulator
(bit 7) whenever a Read Interrupt Mask (RIM)
instruction is executed.
 SOD – Serial Output Data : The Set Interrupt Mask
(SIM) instruction loads the value of bit 7 from the
accumulator into SOD latch.
Hardware and software interrupts
Software interrupt − In this type of interrupt, the

programmer has to add the instructions into the program
to execute the interrupt. There are 8 software interrupts in
8085, i.e. RST0, RST1, RST2, RST3, RST4, RST5, RST6
and RST7.
Hardware interrupt − There are 5 interrupt pins in 8085
used as hardware interrupts, i.e. TRAP, RST7.5, RST6.5,
RST5.5, INTA.
INTERRUPTS
 Interrupt is a process where an external device can

get the attention of the microprocessor.
 Interrupts can be classified into two types:

 Maskable (can be delayed)
 Non -Maskable (can not be delayed)
 An interrupt is considered to be an emergency signal,

The Microprocessor should respond to it as soon as
possible.
 When the Microprocessor receives an interrupt signal,
it suspends the currently executing program and jumps
to an Interrupt Service Routine to respond to the
incoming interrupt.
INTERRUPTS
 INTR is a maskable interrupt, can be enabled and disabled

by software instructions.
 The INTR interrupt jumps to an address dictated by

special instruction received from peripheral devices when
the INTRA output is activated.
 RST5.5 is a maskable low priority interrupt. When this

interrupt is received the processor saves the contents of
the PC register into stack and branches to 2CH
(hexadecimal) address.
INTERRUPTS
 RST6.5 is a maskable in saves the contents of the PC

register into stack and branches to 34H (hexadecimal)
address.
 RST7.5 is a maskable in saves the contents of the PC
register into stack and branches to 3CH (hexadecimal)
address.
 TRAP is a non-maskable (high priority interrupt) saves
the contents of the PC register into stack and branches
to 24H (hexadecimal) address.
 All maskable interrupts RST5.5, RST6.5 and RST7.5
interrupts can be enabled or disabled by executing set
interrupt mask(SIM) instruction.
8085 registers
8085 registers
 Accumulator:
 Program counter
 Stack pointer
 Flag register
 ALU
 Instruction register
8085 flags
The bits of flags register are affected by the arithmetic &

logic operations.
 S-sign flag : is set if bit D7 of the accumulator is set after
an arithmetic or logic operation.
 Z-zero flag : Set if the result of the ALU operation is 0.
 AC-Auxiliary Carry is set when a carry is generated from

bit D3 and passed to D4 .
 P-parity flag : is set , if the result has an even # of 1’s.
 C-carry flag: is set when a carry is generated .

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 Power supply and clock signals

 The address bus has 16 lines; it can carry 16 bits at a

 These are used to carry the address of memory

 These are denoted by A8 to A15 that represents the 8

 The data bus of the 8085 microprocessor is 8 bits.

 These are shown by pin number 12 to 19. The address bus

 The pin configuration denotes the lower order multiplexed

 VCC –An external power supply of + 5 V is provided at

 ALE is an acronym for address latch enable

 We know that 8 lower order bits of the 16-bit address

 This pin gets enabled at the time when the address is

 WR: Low signal in this pin represents the write

 IO/ Indicates the selection of a memory

 S0 and S1 – The pins S0 and S1 represent the status

 RESET IN – An active low signal. This signal is used

 RESET OUT – This signal is used to reset all the

 READY: This signal indicates that the device is ready

 If READY is high during a read or write cycle, it

 Internal processing can continue.

 SID - Serial Input Data : The single bit of data on this

Software interrupt − In this type of interrupt, the

 Interrupt is a process where an external device can

 Interrupts can be classified into two types:

 An interrupt is considered to be an emergency signal,

 INTR is a maskable interrupt, can be enabled and disabled

 The INTR interrupt jumps to an address dictated by

 RST5.5 is a maskable low priority interrupt. When this

 RST6.5 is a maskable in saves the contents of the PC

The bits of flags register are affected by the arithmetic &

 Z-zero flag : Set if the result of the ALU operation is 0.

 AC-Auxiliary Carry is set when a carry is generated from

 C-carry flag: is set when a carry is generated .

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