2 Salient features of 8086 Microprocessor

•It is a 16-bit μp. ( 16-bit ALU, 16-bit registers, 16-bit internal data bus)

•It has 16 bit external data bus.

•8086 has a 20 bit address bus

•can access up to 1 MB memory.

•It can support up to 64K I/O ports.

•It has 14, 16 -bit registers.

•It prefetches upto 6 instruction bytes from memory and store them in instruction queue in order to speed up instruction execution.

•It has multiplexed address and data bus AD0- AD15 and A16 – A19.

•It operates in two modes, Minimum (single processor) and Maximum multi processor.

•Speed is 5MHz to 10MHz

•It requires +5V power supply.

•A 40 pin dual in line package
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