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Since issuing the HLT instruction requires ring 0 access, it can only be run by privileged system software such as the kernel. Because of this, it is often best practice in application programming to use the application programming interface (API) provided for that purpose by the operating system when no more work can be done, such as Linux's ...
GNUSim8085 is a graphical simulator, assembler and debugger for the Intel 8085 microprocessor in Linux and Windows.It is among the 20 winners of the FOSS India Awards announced in February 2008. [1]
Differs from the conventional 8086 HLT instruction in that the clock is stopped too, so that an NMI or CPU reset is needed to resume operation. BRKS imm8: F1 ib: Break and Enable Software Guard. Jump to an address picked from the IVT using the imm8 argument, and then continue execution with "Software Guard" enabled.
The MSR to read is specified in ECX. The value of the MSR is then returned as a 64-bit value in EDX:EAX. [a] 0 IBM 386SLC, [35] Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86MX,MediaGXm, IDT WinChip C6, Transmeta Crusoe, DM&P Vortex86DX3 WRMSR: 0F 30: Write Model-specific register. The MSR to write is specified in ECX, and the data to write is given in EDX ...
The x86 instruction set has several times been extended with SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) instruction set extensions.These extensions, starting from the MMX instruction set extension introduced with Pentium MMX in 1997, typically define sets of wide registers and instructions that subdivide these registers into fixed-size lanes and perform a computation for each lane in parallel.
Using the software interrupt 21h instruction to call the MS-DOS operating system for output to the display – other samples use libc's C printf() routine to write to stdout. Note that the first example, is a 30-year-old example using 16-bit mode as on an Intel 8086. The second example is Intel 386 code in 32-bit mode.
The Intel 8085 ("eighty-eighty-five") is an 8-bit microprocessor produced by Intel and introduced in March 1976. [2] It is the last 8-bit microprocessor developed by Intel. It is software-binary compatible with the more-famous Intel 8080 with only two minor instructions added to support its added interrupt and serial input/output features.
Memory-mapped I/O is preferred in IA-32 and x86-64 based architectures because the instructions that perform port-based I/O are limited to one register: EAX, AX, and AL are the only registers that data can be moved into or out of, and either a byte-sized immediate value in the instruction or a value in register DX determines which port is the source or destination port of the transfer.