8086 Memory Organization

Segmented Memory Two types of memory organization are used: Linear addressing where the entire memory is available to the processor at all the times ( Motorola 68000 family).

Segmented addressing where the memory space is divided into several segments and the processor is limited to access program instructions and data in specific segments. 8086 Memory Organization Each memory location 8086 is a byte while the 8086 is a 16-bits microprocessor?

Many of the 8086 s operation codes are single bytes. I/O devices like printers, terminals and modems are designed to transfer ASCII encoded data. The 8086 has a 20-bits address bus, allowing to access a memory of 220 = 1 M locations.

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1048574 5

7 5 3 1

6 4 2 0

Data Bus

Segment Registers Within the 1MB of memory space, the 8086 defines four 64 K memory blocks: The code segment, stack segment, data segment, extra segment. Each of these blocks of memory is used differently by the processor. The code segment holds the program instruction codes. The data segment holds the data of the program. The extra segment is an extra data segment (often used for shared data). The stack segment is used to store interrupt and subroutine return addresses. There are four segment registers CS, DS, ES and SS and each of them defines the starting address of the corresponding segment. Each segment register is 16 bits wide while the address bus is 20 bits wide. The BIU takes care of this by appending four 0s to the low order bits of the segment register. Segment register 0 0 0 0

Address Bus

Code Segment E0000he gment

CS E000h
Data Segment

DS C2E0h

C2E00h egment

SS 4F98h
4F980he gment

Stack Segment Extra Segment

ES 4A00h

4A000h

Example Assuming the four segment register contain the values shown in the above figure, calculate the beginning and ending addresses of the four segments.

At any time only of memory can be accessed by the processor.

Logical and Physical Addresses Addresses within a segment can be ranged from address 0 to address FFFFh. This correspond to the 64K length of the segment. An address within a segment is called an offset or logical address. For example, logical address 20h in the code segment shown above actually correspond to the real address E0000h+ 20h= E0020h. this real address is called the physical address. Physical address is the 20 bits address that being output bus the BIU on the address bus. Offset

Segment register

0 0 0 0

Adder Address Physical

Types of memory Reference Instruction fetch Stack operation General data String source String destination BX used as pointer BP used as pointer

Default Segment CS SS DS DS ES DS SS

Alternate Segment None None CS, ES, SS CS, ES, SS None CS, ES, SS CS, ES, SS

Offset (Logical Address) IP SP Effective address SI DI Effective address Effective address