™ Overview of architecture 8087.

™ Interfacing with 8086.

™ Data types, instructions.
™ Programming.
Module 4 learning unit 10:

Contents
Architecture of 8087

Data types

Interfacing

Instructions and programming

Overview
Each processor in the 80x86 family has a corresponding coprocessor with which it is
compatible.

Math Coprocessor is known as NPX,NDP,FUP.

Numeric processor extension (NPX),
Numeric data processor (NDP),
Floating point unit (FUP).

Compatible Processor and Coprocessor

Processors

1. 8086 & 8088

2. 80286
3. 80386DX
4. 80386SX
5. 80486DX
6. 80486SX

Coprocessors

1. 8087
2. 80287,80287XL
3. 80287,80387DX
4. 80387SX
5. It is Inbuilt
6. 80487SX
 Pin Diagram of 8087

Architecture of 8087
Control Unit

Execution Unit
Control Unit
Control unit: To synchronize the operation of the coprocessor and the processor.

This unit has a Control word and Status word and Data Buffer

If instruction is an ESCape (coprocessor) instruction, the coprocessor executes it, if not

the microprocessor executes.

Status register reflects the over all operation of the coprocessor.

Status Register

• C3-C0 Condition code bits

• TOP Top-of-stack (ST)
• ES Error summary
• PE Precision error
• UE Under flow error
• OE Overflow error
• ZE Zero error
• DE Denormalized error
• IE Invalid error
• B Busy bit

B-Busy bit indicates that coprocessor is busy executing a task. Busy can be tested by
examining the status or by using the FWAIT instruction. Newer coprocessor
automatically synchronize with the microprocessor, so busy flag need not be tested
before performing additional coprocessor tasks.

C3-C0 Condition code bits indicates conditions about the coprocessor.

TOP- Top of the stack (ST) bit indicates the current register address as the top of the
stack.

ES-Error summary bit is set if any unmasked error bit (PE, UE, OE, ZE, DE, or IE) is
set. In the 8087 the error summary is also caused a coprocessor interrupt.

PE- Precision error indicates that the result or operand executes selected precision.
 UE-Under flow error indicates the result is too large to be represent with the current
precision selected by the control word.

OE-Over flow error indicates a result that is too large to be represented. If this error is
masked, the coprocessor generates infinity for an overflow error.

ZE-A Zero error indicates the divisor was zero while the dividend is a non-infinity or
non-zero number.

DE-Denormalized error indicates at least one of the operand is denormalized.

IE-Invalid error indicates a stack overflow or underflow, indeterminate from (0/0,0,-0,

etc) or the use of a NAN as an operand. This flag indicates error such as those produced
by taking the square root of a negative number.

CONTROL REGISTER

Control register selects precision, rounding control, infinity control.

It also masks an unmasks the exception bits that correspond to the rightmost Six bits of
status register.

Instruction FLDCW is used to load the value into the control register.

Control Register

•IC Infinity control

•RC Rounding control
•PC Precision control
•PM Precision control
•UM Underflow mask
•OM Overflow mask
•ZM Division by zero mask
•DM Denormalized operand mask
•IM Invalid operand mask

IC –Infinity control selects either affine or projective infinity. Affine allows positive
and negative infinity, while projective assumes infinity is unsigned.
INFINITY CONTROL
0 = Projective
1 = Affine

RC –Rounding control determines the type of rounding.

ROUNDING CONTROL
00=Round to nearest or even
01=Round down towards minus infinity
10=Round up towards plus infinity
11=Chop or truncate towards zero

PC- Precision control sets the precision of he result as define in table

PRECISION CONTROL

00=Single precision (short)

01=Reserved
10=Double precision (long)
11=Extended precision (temporary)

Exception Masks – It Determines whether the error indicated by the exception affects
the error bit in the status register. If a logic1 is placed in one of the exception control bits,
corresponding status register bit is masked off.

Numeric Execution Unit

This performs all operations that access and manipulate the numeric data in the
coprocessor’s registers.

Numeric registers in NUE are 80 bits wide.

NUE is able to perform arithmetic, logical and transcendental operations as well as

supply a small number of mathematical constants from its on-chip ROM.

Numeric data is routed into two parts ways a 64 bit mantissa bus and
a 16 bit sign/exponent bus.

Circuit Connection for 8086 - 8087

 Multiplexed address-data bus lines are connected directly from the 8086 to 8087.
The status lines and the queue status lines connected directly from 8086 to 8087.

The Request / Grant signal RQ/GT0 of 8087 is connected to RQ / GT1 of 8086.

______
BUSY signal 8087 is connected to TEST pin of 8086.

Interrupt output INT of the 8087 to NMI input of 8086. This intimates an error
condition.

The main purpose of the circuitry between the INT output of 8087 and the NMI input is
to make sure that an NMI signal is not present upon reset, to make it possible to mask
NMI input and to make it possible for other devices to cause an NMI interrupt.

BHE pin is connected to the system BHE line to enable the upper bank of memory.

The RQ/GT1 input is available so that another coprocessor such as 8089 I/O processor
can be connected and function in parallel with the 8087.

One type of Cooperation between the two processors that you need
to know about it is how the 8087 transfers data between memory and its internal registers.

When 8086 reads an 8087 instruction that needs data from memory or wants to send
data to memory, the 8086 sends out the memory address code in the instruction and sends
out the appropriate memory read or memory write signal to transfer a word of data.
 In the case of memory read, the addressed word will be kept on the data bus by the
memory. The 8087 then simply reads the word of data bus. The 8086 ignores this word
.If the 8087 only needs this one word of data, it can then go on and executes its
instruction.

Some 8087 instructions need to read in or write out up to 80-bit word. For these cases
8086 outputs the address of the first data word on the address bus and outputs the
appropriate control signal.

The 8087 reads the data word on the data bus by memory or writes a data word to
memory on the data bus. The 8087 grabs the 20-bit physical address that was output by
the 8086.To transfer additional words it needs to/from memory, the 8087 then takes over
the buses from 8086.

To take over the bus, the 8087 sends out a low-going pulse on
___ ____
RQ/GT0 pin. The 8086 responds to this by sending another low
___ ____
going pulse back to the RQ/GT0 pin of 8087 and by floating its buses.

The 8087 then increments the address it grabbed during the first transfer and outputs
the incremented address on the address bus. When the 8087 output a memory read or
memory write signal, another data word will be transferred to or from the 8087.

The 8087 continues the process until it has transferred all the data words required by
the instruction to/from memory.

When the 8087 is using the buses for its data transfer, it
____ ___
sends another low-going pulse out on its RQ/ GT0 pin to
8086 to know it can have the buses back again.

The next type of the synchronization between the host

processor and the coprocessor is that required to make sure the
8086 hast does not attempt to execute the next instruction before
the 8087 has completed an instruction.

Taking one situation, in the case where the 8086 needs the data produced by the
execution of an 8087 instruction to carry out its next instruction.

In the instruction sequence for example the 8087 must complete the FSTSW
STATUS instruction before the 8086 will have the data it needs to execute the
MOV AX , STATUS instruction.
 Without some mechanism to make the 8086 wait until the 8087 completes the FSTSW
instruction, the 8086 will go on and execute the MOV AX , STATUS with erroneous
data .
We solve this problem by connecting the 8087 BUSY output to the TEST pin of the
8086 and putting on the WAIT instruction in the program.
While 8087 is executing an instruction it asserts its BUSY pin high. When it is finished
with an instruction, the 8087 will drop its BUSY pin low. Since the BUSY pin from 8087
is connected to the TEST pin 8086 the processor can check its pin of 8087 whether it
finished it instruction or not.

You place the 8086 WAIT instruction in your program after the 8087 FSTSW
instruction .When 8086 executes the WAIT instruction it enters an internal loop where it
repeatedly checks the logic level on the TEST input. The 8086 will stay in this loop until
it finds the TEST input asserted low, indicating the 8087 has completed its instruction.
The 8086 will then exit the internal loop, fetch and execute the next instruction.

Example

FSTSW STATUS ;copy 8087 status word to memory

MOV AX, STATUS ;copy status word to AX to check
; bits

(a)

In this set of instructions we are not using WAIT instruction. Due to this the flow of
execution of command will takes place continuously even though the previous
instruction had not finished it’s completion of its work .so we may lost data .

FSTSW STATUS ;copy 8087 status word to memory

FWAIT ;wait for 8087 to finish before-
; doing next 8086 instruction
MOV AX,STATUS ;copy status word to AX to check
; bits

(b)

In this code we are adding up of FWAIT instruction so that it will stop the execution of
the command until the above instruction is finishes it’s work .so that you are not loosing
data and after that you will allow to continue the execution of instructions.

Another case where you need synchronization of the processor and the coprocessor is
the case where a program has several 8087 instructions in sequence.
The 8087 are executed only one instruction at a time so you have to make sure that
8087 has completed one instruction before you allow the 8086 to fetch the next 8087
instruction from memory. ________
 Here again you use the BUSY-TEST connection and the FWAIT instruction to solve
the problem. If you are hand coding, you can just put the 8086 WAIT(FWAIT)
instruction after each instruction to make sure that instruction is completed before going
on to next.

If you are using the assembler which accepts 8087 mnemonics, the assembler will
automatically insert the 8-bit code for the WAIT instruction ,10011011 binary (9BH), as
the first byte of the code for 8087 instruction.

INTERFACING

Multiplexed address-data bus lines are connected directly from the 8086 to 8087.
The status lines and the queue status lines connected directly from 8086 to 8087.
__ ___
The Request/Grant signal RQ/GT0 of 8087 is connected to
___ __
RQ/GT1 of 8086.
______
BUSY signal 8087 is connected to TEST pin of 8086.

Interrupt output INT of the 8087 to NMI input of 8086. This intimates an error
condition. ______
A WAIT instruction is passed to keep looking at its TEST pin, until it finds pin Low to
indicates that the 8087 has completed the computation.

SYNCHRONIZATION must be established between the processor and coprocessor in

two situations.

a) The execution of an ESC instruction that require the participation of the NUE
must not be initiated if the NUE has not completed the execution of the previous
instruction.

b) When a processor instruction accesses a memory location that is an operand of

a previous coprocessor instruction .In this case CPU must synchronize with NPX to
ensure that it has completed its instruction.
Processor WAIT instruction is provided.
Exception Handling

The 8087 detects six different types of exception conditions that occur during
instruction execution. These will cause an interrupt if unmasked and interrupts are
enabled.

1)INVALID OPERATION
2)OVERFLOW
3)ZERO DIVISOR
4)UNDERFLOW
5)DENORMALIZED OPERAND
6)INEXACT RESULT

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Data Types

Internally, all data operands are converted to the 80-bit temporary real format.

We have 3 types.

•Integer data type

•Packed BCD data type
•Real data type

Coprocessor data types

Integer Data Type

Packed BCD

Real data type

Example
Converting a decimal number into a Floating-point number.

1) Converting the decimal number into binary form.

2) Normalize the binary number
3) Calculate the biased exponent.
4) Store the number in the floating-point format.
Example
Step Result

1) 100.25
2) 1100100.01 = 1.10010001 * 26
3) 110+01111111=10000101
4) Sign = 0
Exponent =10000101
Significand = 10010001000000000000000

•In step 3 the biased exponent is the exponent a 26 or 110,plus a bias of 01111111(7FH)
,single precision no use 7F and double precision no use 3FFFH.
•IN step 4 the information found in prior step is combined to form the floating point no.

INSTRUCTION SET
The 8087 instruction mnemonics begins with the letter F which stands for Floating
point and distinguishes from 8086.

These are grouped into Four functional groups.

The 8087 detects an error condition usually called an exception when it executing an
instruction it will set the bit in its Status register.

Types
I. DATA TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS.

II. ARITHMETIC INSTRUCTIONS.

III. COMPARE INSTRUCTIONS.

IV. TRANSCENDENTAL INSTRUCTIONS.

(Trigonometric and Exponential)
Data Transfers Instructions
REAL TRANSFER

FLD Load real

FST Store real
FSTP Store real and pop
FXCH Exchange registers

INTEGER TRANSFER

FILD Load integer

FIST Store integer
FISTP Store integer and pop

PACKED DECIMAL TRANSFER(BCD)

FBLD Load BCD

FBSTP Store BCD and pop

Example
FLD Source- Decrements the stack pointer by one and copies a real number from a
stack element or memory location to the new ST.

•FLD ST(3) ;Copies ST(3) to ST.

•FLD LONG_REAL[BX] ;Number from memory
;copied to ST.
FLD Destination- Copies ST to a specified stack position or to a specified memory
location .

•FST ST(2) ;Copies ST to ST(2),and

;increment stack pointer.
•FST SHORT_REAL[BX] ;Copy ST to a memory at a
;SHORT_REAL[BX]

FXCH Destination – Exchange the contents of ST with the contents of a specified

stack element.

•FXCH ST(5) ;Swap ST and ST(5)

 FILD Source – Integer load. Convert integer number from memory to temporary-real
format and push on 8087 stack.

•FILD DWORD PTR[BX] ;Short integer from memory at [BX].

FIST Destination- Integer store. Convert number from ST to integer and copy to
memory.

•FIST LONG_INT ;ST to memory locations named LONG_INT.

FISTP Destination-Integer store and pop. Identical to FIST except that stack pointer is
incremented after copy.

FBLD Source- Convert BCD number from memory to temporary- real format and
push on top of 8087 stack.

Arithmetic Instructions.

Four basic arithmetic functions:

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and

Division.

Addition

FADD Add real

FADDP Add real and pop
FIADD Add integer

Subtraction

FSUB Subtract real

FSUBP Subtract real and pop
FISUB Subtract integer
FSUBR Subtract real reversed
FSUBRP Subtract real and pop
FISUBR Subtract integer reversed
 Multiplication

FMUL Multiply real

FMULP Multiply real and pop
FIMUL Multiply integer

Advanced

FABS Absolute value

FCHS Change sign
FPREM Partial remainder
FPRNDINT Round to integer
FSCALE Scale
FSQRT Square root
FXTRACT Extract exponent and mantissa.

Example
FADD – Add real from specified source to specified destination Source can be a stack
or memory location. Destination must be a stack element. If no source or destination is
specified, then ST is added to ST(1) and stack pointer is incremented so that the result of
addition is at ST.

•FADD ST(3), ST ;Add ST to ST(3), result in ST(3)

•FADD ST,ST(4) ;Add ST(4) to ST, result in ST.
•FADD ;ST + ST(1), pop stack result at ST
•FADDP ST(1) ;Add ST(1) to ST. Increment stack
;pointer so ST(1) become ST.
•FIADD Car_Sold ;Integer number from memory + ST

FSUB - Subtract the real number at the specified source from the real number at the
specified destination and put the result in the specified destination.

•FSUB ST(2), ST ;ST(2)=ST(2) – ST.

•FSUB Rate ;ST=ST – real no from memory.
•FSUB ;ST=( ST(1) – ST)

FSUBP - Subtract ST from specified stack element and put result in specified stack
element .Then increment the pointer by one.

•FSUBP ST(1) ;ST(1)-ST. ST(1) becomes new ST

 FISUB – Integer from memory subtracted from ST, result in ST.

•FISUB Cars_Sold ;ST becomes ST – integer from memory

Compare Instructions.
Comparison

FCOM Compare real

FCOMP Compare real and pop
FCOMPP Compare real and pop twice
FICOM Compare integer
FICOMP Compare integer and pop
FTST Test ST against +0.0
FXAM Examine ST

Transcendental Instruction.
Transcendental

FPTAN Partial tangent

FPATAN Partial arctangent
F2XM1 2x - 1
FYL2X Y log2X
FYL2XP1 Y log2(X+1)

Example

FPTAN – Compute the values for a ratio of Y/X for an angle in ST. The angle must be
in radians, and the angle must be in the range of 0 < angle < π/4. F2XM1 – Compute
Y=2x-1 for an X value in ST. The result Y replaces X in ST. X must be in the range
0≤X≤0.5.

FYL2X - Calculate Y(LOG2X).X must be in the range of 0 < X < ∞ any Y

must be in the range -∞<Y<+∞.

FYL2XP1 – Compute the function Y(LOG2(X+1)).This instruction is almost identical

to FYL2X except that it gives more accurate results when compute log of a number very
close to one.
Constant Instructions.

Load Constant Instruction

FLDZ Load +0.0

FLDI Load+1.0
FLDPI Load π
FLDL2T Load log210
FLDL2E Load log2e
FLDLG2 Load log102
FLDLN2 Load loge2

ALGORITHM

To calculate x to the power of y

•Load base, power.

•Compute (y )*( log2 x)
•Separate integer(i) ,fraction(f) of a real number
•Divide fraction (f) by 2
•Compute (2 f/2) * ( 2f/2)
•xy = (2x) * (2y )
Program:
Program to calculate x to the power of y

.MODEL SMALL
.DATA
x Dq 4.567 ;Base
y Dq 2.759 ;Power
temp DD
temp1 DD
temp2 DD ;final real result
tempint DD
tempint1 DD ;final integer result
two DW
diff DD
trunc_cw DW 0fffh

.STACK 100h
.CODE
start: mov ax, @DATA ;init data segment
mov ds, ax

load: fld y ;load the power

fld x ;load the base

comput: fyl2x ;compute (y * log2(x))

fst temp ;save the temp result

trunc: fldcw trunc_cw ;set truncation command

frndint
fld temp ;load real number of fyl2x
fist tempint ;save integer after truncation
fld temp ;load the real number

getfrac: fisub tempint ;subtract the integer

fst diff ;store the fraction

fracby2: fidiv two ;divide the fraction by 2

twopwrx: f2xm1 ;calculate the 2 to the power fraction

fst temp1 ;minus 1 and save the result
fld1 ;load1
fadd ;add 1 to the previous result
fst temp1 ;save the result
sqfrac: fmul st(0),st(0) ;square the result as fraction
fst temp1 ;was halved and save the result
fild tempint ;save the integer portion
fxch ;interchange the integer
;and power of fraction.

scale: fscale ;scale the result in real and

;integer
fst temp2 ;in st(1) and store
fist tempint1 ;save the final result in real and integer

over: mov ax,4c00h ;exit to dos

int 21h
end start
1. The coprocessors operate in ______ with a processor on the same buses and with
the same instruction _______.
a) Parallel, byte stream. b) Series, byte stream.
c) Series, bite stream d) Parallel, bite stream.

2. Why 8087 is referred to as Coprocessor?

i) Because 8087 is used in parallel with main processor in a system, rather than
serving as a main processor itself.
ii) Because 8087 is used in serial with main processor in a system, rather than
serving as a main processor itself.
iii) Because main Microprocessor handles the general program execution and the
8087 handles specialized math computations.
a) i & iii b) ii & iii c) iii only. d) i only.

3. 8087 connection to 8086, to enable the _________ bank of memory _______pins

are to be connected.
a) Lower, BHE b) Upper, BHE c) Lower, INT
d) Upper, INT.

4. ___ Connection and the _______ instruction will solve the problem of
synchronization between processor and coprocessor.
a) INT & NMI, WAIT b) RQ/GT0 & RQ/GT1, FWAIT
c) BUSY & TEST, FWAIT d) S0 & QS0, WAIT

5. _______ input is available, so that another coprocessor can be connected and

function in _________ with the 8087. .
a) RQ/GT0, parallel b) RQ/GT1, parallel c) QS1 & QS0, parallel
d) S0 & S1, parallel.

6. In 8087, _______ many register stack are there? And of _____ registers. These
registers are used as _________ stack.
a) 7, 40 bit, FIFO. b) 8, 60 bit, LILO. c) 8, 80 bit, LIFO d) 7, 80 bit, FILO.

7. If ______ and ________ connections are made so that an error condition in 8087
can interrupt to the processor.
a) BHE, RQ/GT1 b) BUSY, TEST c) INT, NMI d) RQ/GT0, RQ/GT1

8. In 8087, which instruction is used for division real reversed______.

a) FDIV b) FIDIVR c) FDIVR d) FDIVRP

9. Which of the following is of compare instruction in 8087?

a) FTST b) FPREM c) FPATAN d) FLDI
10. In 8087 coprocessor one of the following instructions is not valid

a. FSIN
b. FPTAN
c. FIDIV
d. FSQRT

11. One of the following signals belongs to the 8087 coprocessor is

a. HOLD
b. BUSY
c. TEST
d. NMI

Key:

4.1 A 4.2 A 4.3 B 4.4 A 4.5 B 4.6 C

4.7 C 4.8 C 4.9 A 4.10 A 4.11 C