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CS 301 Fall 2002
Computer Organization
Slide Set 2
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Processors – the 808x line
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Processor
Data bus
Registers
Address space
Modes
8088
8-bit
16-bit
1 Megabyte
Real
8086
16-bit
16-bit
1 Megabyte
R
80286
16-bit
16-bit
16 Megabytes
R,
Protected
80386
32-bit
32-bit
4 Gigabytes
R, P
80486
32-bit
32-bit
4 Gigabytes and
cache
R, P
Pentium
32-bit
64-bit
4 Gigabytes and
separate caches
R, P
Pentium
II, III, 4
As Pentium, but Dual Independent Bus for separate
paths to cache and memory.
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Pipelining and other speedups
Each more advanced processor does more at
once (pipelining)
 Branch prediction (because processors are
faster than memory)
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Parts of the CPU
Execution Unit: registers, control unit (CU),
arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) – executes
instructions
 BIU: brings instructions to EU, manages
segment registers and instruction queue.
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Internal Memory
RAM – random access memory
 ROM – read only memory
 808x processors that handle more than one
byte at a time store the most significant byte
in the high memory address and the low
order byte in the low address.
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Real Mode
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8086/8088 and up have real mode. Segment
registers are 16-bit, addressable space is
00000h to FFFFFh.
How do you use 16-bit registers to address into
a memory space that requires a 20-bit number?
Use two 16 bit values to determine an address.
Multiply the first by 10h and add the second.
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16-bit protected mode
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Introduced with 80286, selector values (contents
of segment registers) are indexes into a descriptor
table.
In protected mode, each segment is assigned an
entry into a descriptor table. The entry contains all
information the system needs to know, such as if it
is currently in memory (virtual memory), where it
is in memory, its access permissions, etc.
Major disadvantage is that offsets are still 16-bit
quantities, meaning each segment contains at most
64K.
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32-bit protected mode
Introduced with 80386, similar to 16-bit
protected mode except offsets are now 32
bits, so segments can contain up to 4
gigabytes.
 Divides segments up into pages of 4K.
Virtual memory now works with pages
instead of entire segments.
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Segment Registers 1
CS register – contains starting address of
the code segment. Along with IP, [CS:IP]
gives the address of the instruction to be
fetched for execution.
 DS register – contains starting address of
the data segment. Used with offsets
included in instructions.
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Segment Registers 2
SS register – For the stack segment, used as
[SS:SP]. Also (in subroutines) [SS:BP].
 ES register – Used (as [ES:DI]) by some
string operations to handle memory
addressing.
 FS and GS registers – Additional extra
segment registers introduced with 80386
processor.
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Pointer Registers
The 32 bit pointer registers are EIP, ESP,
and EBP. Their rightmost 16 bits are called
IP, SP, and BP.
 Pointer registers are offsets to be combined
with segment registers. IP is used with CS,
SP and BP are used with SS.
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General Registers 1
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The 32-bit registers are EAX, EBX, ECX,
EDX. Their rightmost 16 bits are AX, BX,
etc. Of those 16 bits, the leftmost byte (high
bits) are AH, BH, etc. and the rightmost
byte (low bits) are AL, BL, etc.
AH
AL
AX
EAX
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General Registers 2
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AX – the primary accumulator is used for I/O and
most arithmetic (such as multiply, divide, and
translate). Many instructions generate more
efficient machine code if the reference AX rather
than some other register.
BX – the base register. BX is the only general
purpose register that can be used as an index to
extend addressing. BX is also often used for
computation and with SI or SI as a base register.
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General Registers 3
CX is called the count register. It is often
used as a loop index, or a value to shift bits
left or right.
 DX is called the data register. Some I/O
operations require it, and large
multiplication and division operations use it
along with AX as a pair.
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Index Registers
ESI and EDI are the 32-bit index registers,
their rightmost 16 bits are SI and DI
respectively.
 SI is the “source index register” associated
with DS for some string operations
 DI is the “destination index register”
associated with ES for some string
operations.
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Flag Register
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The 32-bit EFLAGS contains bits indicating
the status of various activities. The
rightmost 16 bits of EFLAGS is the FLAGS
register, nine of its 16 bits indicate the status
and results of processing. Many instructions
change the status of these flags, other
instructions test the flags to determine later
action.
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Flag bits 1
OF (overflow) Indicates overflow of the
leftmost bit during arithmetic.
 DF (direction) Indicates left or right for
moving or comparing string data.
 IF (interrupt) Indicates whether external
interrupts are being processed or ignored.
 TF (trap) Permits operation of the processor
in single step mode.
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Flag bits 2
SF (sign) Contains the resulting sign of an
arithmetic operation (1=negative)
 ZF (zero) Indicates when the result of
arithmetic or a comparison is zero. (1=yes)
 AF (auxiliary carry) Contains carry out of
bit 3 into bit 4 for specialized arithmetic.
 PF (parity) Indicates the number of 1 bits
that result from an operation.
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Flag bits 3
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CF (carry) Contains carry from leftmost bit
following arithmetic, also contains last bit
from a shift or rotate operation.
Flag
Bit no.
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D
I
T
S
Z
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10
9
8
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6
A
5
4
P
3
2
C
1
0
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Hardware Interrupts
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Some events cause the processor to stop
what it is doing and act immediately on
something else. Usually these are normal
such as keyboard input, but sometimes they
are critical, such as divide by zero. There
are also software interrupts, such as a
request by the program to display data on
the screen. After an interrupt is processed
the processor returns to what it was doing.
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