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What is segmentation? Give usages, advantages of segmentation.
written 7.3 years ago by gravatar for vinayakprabhutendolkar vinayakprabhutendolkar • 230 modified 3.9 years ago by gravatar for pedsangini276 pedsangini276 • 4.8k

SUBJECT: MICROPROCESSOR AND PERIPHERALS INTERFACING

TOPIC: ARCHITECHITECTURE OF 8086 MICROPROCESSOR

DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM
microprocessors and peripherals
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written 7.3 years ago by gravatar for vinayakprabhutendolkar vinayakprabhutendolkar • 230

The need of memory segmentation is explained below:

  • The BIU (Bus Interfacing Unit) contains four special purpose registers called as segment registers. These are Code Segment (CS) register, Stack Segment (SS) register, Extra Segment (ES) register and Data Segment (DS) register.
  • All these are 16 bit registers.
  • The number of …

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