Book Description

Pentium Microprocessor Historical evolution of 80286, 386 and 486 processors, Pentium features and architecture, Pin description, Functional description, Pentium real mode, Pentium RISC features, Pentium super-scalar architecture - pipelining, Instruction paring rules, Branch prediction, Instruction and data caches The floating-point unit.Bus Cycles and Memory OrganisationInitialization and configuration, Bus operations-reset, Non pipelined and pipelined (read and write), Memory organisation and I/O organisation, Data transfer mechanism-8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit data bus interface.Pentium programmingProgrammer's model, Register set, Addressing modes, Instruction set, Data types, Data transfer instructions, String instructions, Arithmetic instructions, Logical instructions, Bit manipulation instructions, Program transfer instructions and Processor control instructions.Protected ModeIntroduction, Segmentation-support registers, Related instructions descriptors, Memory management through segmentation, Logical to linear address translation, Protection by segmentation, Privilege level-protection, Related instructions, Inter-privilege level transfer of control, Paging-support registers, descriptors, Linear to physical address translation, TLB, Page level protection, Virtual memory.Multitasking, Interrupts Exceptions and I/OMultitasking - Support registers, Related descriptors, Task switching, I/O Permission bit map. Virtual mode - features, Address generation, Privilege level, Instructions and registers available, entering and leaving V86 mode. Interrupt structure - Real, Protected and Virtual 8086 modes, I/O handling in Pentium, Comparison of all three modes.8051 Micro-controllerMicro-controller MCS-51 family architecture, On-chip data memory and program memory organization - Register set, Register bank, SFRs, External data memory and program memory, Interrupts structure, Timers and their programming, Serial port and programming, Other features, Design of minimum system using 8051 micro-controller for various applications.PIC Micro-controllerOverview and features of PIC16C, PIC 16F8XX, Pin diagram, Capture mode, Compare mode, PWM mode, Block diagram, Programmer's model PIC, Reset and clocking.Memory organization - program memory, data memory, Flash, EEPROM, PIC 16F8XX addressing modes, Instruction set, programming, I/O ports, Interrupts, Timers, ADC.