INTEL 8086

• Intel 8086 is a 1st member of 80x86 microprocessor family
• It is a 16-bit microprocessor
• It supports 16-bit ALU
• A set of 16-bit registers
• Most of the instructions are designed to work with 16-bit binary words
• It has 16-bit data bus
• It can be data from or write data into memory & ports either 8-bit or 16-bit at a time
• It has 20-bit address lines so it can address 2²⁰ =1,048,576 (1mb) memory locations
• It provide segment memory addressing capability
• A rich instruction set
• Powerful interrupt structure 
• 6 byte instruction queue
• Max clock frequency is 5,8,10MHz
• Memory divided into 2 banks (even & odd)
• Address range of memory is 00000-FFFFFH