80286 MICROPROCESSOR
802 8 6 MICROPROCESSOR 8.1 Salient Features of 80286 The 80286 is the first member of the family of advanced microprocessors with memory management and protection abilities. The 80286 CPU, with its 24-bit address bus is able to address 16 Mbytes of physical memory. Various versions of 80286 are available that runs on 12.5 MHz , 10 MHz and 8 MHz clock frequencies. 80286 is upwardly compatible with 8086 in terms of instruction set. 80286 has two operating modes namely real address mode and virtual address mode. In real address mode, the 80286 can address upto 1Mb of physical memory address like 8086. In virtual address mode, it can address up to 16 Mb of physical memory address space and 1 Gb of virtual memory address space. The instruction set of 80286 includes the instructions of 8086 and 80186. 80286 has some extra instructions to support operating system and memory management. In real address mode, the 80286 is object code compatible with 8086. In protected virtual address mo...