
Explore the general concept of microprocessors, the internal and external architecture of the 8085, and programming in assembly language.
Describe the microprocessor as an integrated circuit fabricated from semiconductor material with millions of transistors that powers digital electronics by executing programs step by step through processor instructions.
Explore the application fields of microprocessors across instrumentation, spectrum analyses, cars, washing machines, desktops and laptops, industrial controllers, surveillance, embedded systems, mobile phones, and credit card applications.
Trace the history of the Intel microprocessor family from the 1971 4-byte era to Pentium generations, highlighting transistor counts from two thousand two hundred fifty to seven hundred eighty-one million.
Trace the old generations of microprocessors, including Intel 4004, 9501, 80486, 586, 8085, 8086, Motorola 6800, and Motorola 68020.
Explore the latest generation of microprocessors, including pentium generations and quad core architectures. Trace the evolution from pentium to core i3 and the newer core ai nine processors.
Explore the typical calculator structure, including the arithmetic logic unit, accessible and inaccessible registers, CPU with power and clock, and its interface to memory, I/O, and peripherals.
Explore the hardware description of a typical microprocessor, including clock input, power supply, data and address buses, and the control bus for memory operations such as read.
Explore the functional scheme of memories on an integrated circuit, including data bits, Vcc and Vss power, read and write pins, chip select, and address lines to access memory locations.
Learn microprocessor memory interfacing for the Intel 8085, including how the microprocessor communicates with memory via control lines, read lines, and chip select to access multiple memories.
Explore the Intel 8085 microprocessor’s key technical characteristics, including 3.07–5 MHz clock, 5-volt supply, 8-bit data (0–255), 16-bit address space, and eight registers.
Explore the external architecture of the Intel 8085, including the 40-pin interface, address and data buses, clock and control lines, and 16-bit memory input output interactions.
Explore the architecture of the 8085 microprocessor, including the ALU, accumulator, registers B, C, D, H, L, and the 16-bit program counter, with the decoder and timing coordinating data flow.
Explore the 8085 registers: the eight-bit accumulator and W Z, the 16-bit program counter and stack pointer, and the flag register with C, Z, AC, parity, and other flag bits.
Develop a mnemonic code program for the microprocessor by analyzing the problem, creating a flow chart, converting to mnemonic and machine language, and documenting for reuse.
Demonstrates writing an assembly language program by using mnemonics, data handling, and register operations, and translating instructions into machine code via memory addresses and labels.
Explore the instruction sets of the Intel 8085, defining programs as sequences executed by the microprocessor, showing how data on the bus enters registers and is decoded into mnemonics.
Examine the two interrupt types in the 8085: software interrupts triggered by the main program and hardware interrupts from external devices, both enabling asynchronous task handling and preventing long loops.
Explore the addressing modes of the 8085 microprocessor, detailing how it handles addresses and data, including implicit, immediate, register, and combined addressing.
Discover the six instruction types in the Intel 8085 microprocessor, including data transfer between registers and memory, arithmetic and logical operations, branch control, and input-output and machine control instructions.
Explore the 8085 microprocessor instructions, including memory addressing, four-cycle executions, and basic logical operations such as and and or, with notes on conditional operations and instruction mnemonics.
Demonstrate Intel 8085 microprocessor examples, loading data from memory, transferring between registers, performing A plus B additions, and interpreting mnemonic instructions with timing and memory concepts.
The microprocessor is a high-speed integrated circuit used in many fields to perform specific tasks. These tasks are interpreted by a particular language called "Mnemonic code" This language is based on the abbreviation of instructions defined by the constructor as mnemonic codes. The present course provides the external and internal architecture of the 8085 microprocessor. First, an overview of the aspects of microprocessors will be tackled. Following, an essential phase will be evoked, which is resumed in the elaboration of an assembly program based on mnemonic codes by providing some famous examples. But before this step, we will study the different groups of instructions that rely on the 8085 microprocessor.
The essential points studied in the present course are given as follows:
- Definition of microprocessor
- The domains of application of microprocessors
- The history of microprocessor families
- The old generation of microprocessors
- The latest generation of microprocessors
- General structure of a typical calculator
- Hardware description of microprocessor circuit
- The functional scheme of a memory
- Interfacing of Microprocessor/memory
- Technical characteristics of the 8085 microprocessor
- External architecture of microprocessor INTEL 8085
- Internal architecture of microprocessor INTEL 8085
- The accessible and inaccessible registers of the INTEL 8085 microprocessor
- The method of development of a mnemonic code
- Writing programs in assembly language
- Instruction sets of microprocessor 8085
- Hardware interruptions of microprocessor 8085
- Addressing modes of the microprocessor 8085
- The types of instructions
- Instructions for the INTEL 8085 microprocessor
- Examples implemented on microprocessor 8085