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This; a micro-instruction uses M and N for the source and destination registers, and the hardware handles the details.4The M and N values are implemented by 5-bit registers that are invisible to the programmer and specify the "real" register to use. The diagram below shows how they appear on the die.Die photo of the circuitry that implements the M and N registers. A multiplexer selects a source for the N register value and feeds it into the 5-bit N register. The M register is similar. Between the two registers is a "swap" circuit to swap the outputs of the two registers based on the instruction's "direction" bit. In this image, the metal layer has been dissolved with acid to show the transistors in the silicon layer underneath.PipeliningThe 8086 documentation says this ADD instruction takes four clock cycles, and as we have seen, it is implemented with four micro-instructions.One micro-instruction is executed per clock cycle, so the timing seems straightforward.The problem, however, is that a micro-instruction can't be completed in one clock cycle.It takes a clock cycle to read a micro-instruction from the microcode ROM.Sending signals across an internal bus typically takes a clock cycle and other actions take more time.So a typical micro-instruction ends up taking 2½ clock cycles from start to end.One solution would be to slow down the clock, so the micro-instruction can complete in one cycle, but that would drastically reduce performance.A better solution is pipelining the execution so a micro-instruction can complete every cycle.5The idea of pipelining is to break instruction processing into "stages", so different stages can work on different instructions at the same time.It's sort of like an assembly line, where a particular car might take an hour to manufacture, but a new car comes off the assembly line every minute.The diagram below shows a simple example. Suppose executing an instruction requires three steps: A, B, and C.Executing four instructions, as shown at the top would take 12 steps in total.Diagram of a simple pipeline showing four instructions executing through three stages.However, suppose the steps can execute independently, so step B for one instruction

To take place.In the second half of cycle 6, the ALU receives these control signals and computes the sum.The RNI (Run Next Instruction) and the second instruction byte from the prefetch queue cause the loader to issue Second Clock, and the micro-address forthe next machine instruction is sent to the microcode ROM.Finally, in cycle 7, the sum is written to the AX register and the flags are updated, completing the ADD instruction.Meanwhile, the next instruction is well underway with its first micro-instruction being executed.As you can see, execution of a micro-instruction is pipelined, with three full clock cycles from the arrival of an instruction until the firstmicro-instruction completes in cycle 4.Although this system is complex, in the best case it achieves the goal of running a micro-instruction each cycle, without gaps.(There are gaps in some cases, most commonly when the prefetch queue is empty.A gap will also occur if the microcode control flow doesn't allow a NXT micro-instruction to be issued.In that case, the loader can't issue First Clock until the RNI micro-instruction is issued, resulting in a delay.)ConclusionsThe 8086 uses multiple types of pipelining to increase performance. I've focused on the pipelining at the microcode level, but the 8086 uses at least four interlockingtypes of pipelining.First, microcode pipelining allows micro-instructions to complete at the rate of one per clock cycle, even though it takes multiple cycles for a micro-instruction tocomplete.Admittedly, this pipeline is not very deep compared to the pipelines in RISC processors; the 8086 designers called the overlap in the microcode ROM a "sort of mini-pipeline."10The second type of pipelining overlaps instruction decoding and execution. Instruction decoding is fairly complicated on the 8086 since there are many differentformats of instructions, usually depending on the second byte (Mod R/M).The loader coordinates this pipelining, issuing the First Clock and Second Clock signals so decoding on the next instruction can start before the previous instruction has completed.Third is the prefetch queue, which overlaps fetching instructions from memory with execution.This is accomplished by partitioning the processor into the Bus Interface Unit and the Execution Unit, with the prefetch queue in between.(I recently

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Fetch bytes from the queue at the right time.The state machine for the 8086 "loader" circuit. I'm not going to explain how it works in this post, but the diagram looks pretty cool.From patent US4449184.The loader generates two timing signals that synchronize instruction decoding and microcode execution with the prefetch queue.The FC (First Clock) indicates that the first instruction byte is available, while the SC (Second Clock) indicates the secondinstruction byte.Note that the First Clock and Second Clock are not necessarily consecutive clock cycles because the first byte could be the last one in the queue,delaying the Second Clock.At the end of a microcode sequence, the Run Next Instruction (RNI) micro-operation causes the loader to fetch the next machine instruction.However, microcode execution would be blocked for a cycle due to the delay of fetching and decoding the next instruction.In many cases, this can be avoided: if the microcode knows that it is one micro-instruction away from finishing,it issues a Next-to-last (NXT) micro-operation so the loader can start loading the next instruction before the previous instruction finishes.As will be shown in the next section,this usually allows micro-instructions to run without interruption.Instruction executionPutting this all together, we can see how the ADD instruction is executed, cycle by cycle.Each clock cycle starts with the clock high (H) and ends with the clock low (L).8The sequence starts with the prefetch queue supplying the ADD instruction across the Q bus in cycle 1.The loader indicates that this is First Clock and the instruction is loaded into the microcode address register.It takes a clock cycle for the address to exit the address register (as indicated by an arrow) along with the microcode counter value indicating step 0.To remember the ALU operation, bits 5-3 of the instruction are saved in the internal X register (unrelated to the AX register).In cycle 2, the prefetch queue has supplied the second byte of the instruction so the loader indicates Second Clock.In the second half of cycle 2, the microcode address decoder has converted the instruction-based address to the micro-address 018 and supplies it to the microcode ROM.In cycle 3, the

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