
In this chapter, you will learn
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The pin functions of a typical memory chip.
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The technique of memory address decoding.
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The reason and logic of using partial
address decoding.
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The reason for organizing memory in
banks.
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The principles of I/O address decoding.
memory and
i/o decoding
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Introduction
In the previous chapter, we discussed the hardware structure of 8086 and a few ICs
which have to be used along with it. Now, we will delve a bit deeper – the focus of this
chapter will be on the way memory and I/O are connected to the processor.
Let us start with memory. Whenever we talked about reading or writing from mem-
ory, an address was refer ...