Unit 3 & 4 question bank
1. Discuss the interrupt system of Intel 8086. What is an interrupt pointer? What is the 'type'
of an interrupt?
2. What is an Interrupt?
3. Explain the following terms related to interrupts.
a. ISR
b. IVT
c. Interrupt Priority
d. Interrupt Priority
4. Explain the procedure followed by the 8086 processor whenever any interrupt arrives.
5. Explain the address calculation procedure for Interrupt service routine.
6. Explain the difference between Absolute decoding and partial decoding.
7. Explain the difference between Memory mapped I/O and Peripheral mapped I/O.
8. For examples refer ppt and sunil mahur book.
9. Draw and explain the architecture of the 80186 microprocessor.
10. Draw and explain the architecture of 80286 microprocessors.
11. Give the difference between 8086 and 80186 microprocessor.
12. Write a short note on an 80386 microprocessor.
13. Write a short note on the Global descriptor table and local descriptor table of 80286
microprocessor.
14. Explain the register organization of 80386 microprocessor.
15. Write a short note on the Memory management unit of 80386 microprocessor.
16. Write a short note on special Pentium registers.
17. Write a short note on the Pentium processor.