The Intel 8085A

Microprocessor

By Shawn Hatton and

Jeff Shannon
for EET 445
The Functions of the 8085A

• Is an 8-bit microprocessor that can access

up to 64K (65,536) bytes of memory.
• It performs clock generation, system bus
control, interrupt priority selection, and
execution of the instruction set.
• Can address 256 I/O locations (00-FF), but
IO/M from CPU distinguishes it.
Registers of the 8085
• Accumulator (8-bit)
• Program Counter (16-bit)
• General purpose (BC, DE, and HL) (6 8-
bit or 3 16-bit) registers
• Stack Pointer
• Flag Register
• Carry flag (CY)- Acts as a ninth MSB for the
accumulator
• Auxiliary Carry Flag (AC)- Represents
overflow from bit 3 of ACCA. Used for BCD
• Sign Flag (S)- Looks at bit 7 of ACCA and is
set in correspondence with bit 7.
• Zero Flag (Z)- Set when the contents of
ACCA are zero.
• Parity Flag (P)- sets if parity of ACCA is
even, if odd parity it is cleared.
Internal Clock generator

• Only needs a quartz crystal OR an

external clock input at X1

• Crystal- 6.25 MHz

• CLK is half the frequency of the crystal
input signal
5 Interrupt types for the 8085
• INTR- a maskable interrupt that can be
enabled/disabled with the EI or DI software
instructions (lowest priority)
• RST 5.5, 6.5, 7.5- RST 5.5 and 6.5 are level
sensitive (they acknowledge when held high),
7.5 is edge-triggered--signal is sent to the RST
7.5 flip-flop (5.5 has 4th priority & 7.5 has
second)
• TRAP-highest priority and unmaskable. Rising
edge triggers but must be held high to be
received internally.
Serial Input and Output
• When a RIM (read int-masks) occurs, the status
of SID pin is read into ACCA. (INPUT)
• When a SIM (set int-masks) occurs, bit 7 of
ACCA is loaded out of the SOD output, as long
as bit 6 of ACCA is high
Multiplexed Bus Cycle Timing

• Fetch and Execute phases of direct STA

instruction
State Transition Sequence

• The machine cycles are equivalent to 3 cycles

of CLK output, except for the opcode fetch
machine cycle which will normally contain 4 to
6 CLK cycles
Opcode Fetch Machine Cycle
8085A Pinout
Thanks for Your Attention

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