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Microprocessors

8085 Architecture

8085 Architecture Overview 8085 Pin Description Timing Diagrams Control Signals Demultiplexing Bus

8085 Instructions

Addressing Modes Instruction Set Groups Stack Instructions Rotate Instructions 16-bit Arithmetic

8085 Programming

Assembly Language Basics Arithmetic Programs Looping and Indexing Stack and Subroutines BCD Arithmetic Time Delay Loops Code Conversion

8086 Architecture

8086 Architecture Memory Segmentation 8086 Pin Diagram Flag Register 8086 Instruction Queue

8086 Programming

8086 Addressing Modes 8086 Instruction Set String Instructions Interrupts DOS Function Calls BIOS Interrupts Macros vs Procedures Assembler Directives

Peripheral Interfacing

Memory Interfacing IO Interfacing 8255 PPI 8259 PIC 8253/54 Timer 8237 DMA 8251 USART 7 Segment Display Interface Stepper Motor Interface Keyboard Interfacing

Modern Processors

Evolution to Pentium Protected Mode Pipelining Cache Memory Virtual Memory Branch Prediction Multi-core Processors Hyper-Threading SIMD Instructions

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RISC vs CISC Microcontroller Difference Bus Standards

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Stack Instructions

PUSH, POP, XTHL, SPHL.

Updated: 19 March 2026

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Stack Instructions Quiz

Test your understanding of PUSH, POP, XTHL, and SPHL stack operations in the 8085.

Question 1 of 3

Q1.Before executing "PUSH B" in 8085, the SP = 2050H. What is the value of SP after the instruction executes?

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