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Silicon reverse-engineering: the Intel 8086 processor's flag circuitry
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Status flags are a key part of most processors, indicating if an arithmetic result is negative, zero, or has a carry, for instance. In thi...
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Understanding the x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction
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I've been looking at the DAA machine instruction on x86 processors, a special instruction for binary-coded decimal arithmetic. Intel...
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Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086 processor's HALT circuits
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The 8086 processor was introduced in 1978 and has greatly influenced modern computing through the x86 architecture. One unusual instructio...
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Reverse-engineering the conditional jump circuitry in the 8086 processor
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Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor in 1978 and it had a huge influence on computing. I'm reverse-engineering the 8086 by examini...
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