This is study of two high-performance microprocessor architectures: the Intel 8086 family and the Motorola 68000 family. Comparatively discussing the 16-bit microprocessors, 8086 and 68000 with the 32-bit microprocessors, 80386 and 68020, the text uses a systems-oriented approach to provide coverage of the microprocessor, its architecture, assembly language programming and hardware interfacing techniques. The work defines software architecture - register model, memory address space, data organization, user and supervisor stacks and operand addressing modes. It also shows the practical circuits for implementing hardware interfaces in a microcomputer system, and provides an introduction to instruction sets and their use in writing practical programs, and VLSI I/O peripheral ICs.
- ISBN10 0138126860
- ISBN13 9780138126865
- Publish Date February 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson Education (US)
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 656
- Language English