Cont… In 8086 microprocessor following tasks are performed when microprocessor encounters an interrupt

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The different types of interrupts present in 8086 microprocessor are given by:

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  Hardware Interrupts – Hardware interrupts are those interrupts which are caused by any peripheral device by sending a signal through a specified pin to the microprocessor. There are two hardware interrupts in 8086 microprocessor. They are:
  
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    (A) NMI (Non Maskable Interrupt) – It is a single pin non maskable hardware interrupt which cannot be disabled. It is the highest priority interrupt in 8086 microprocessor. After its execution, this interrupt generates a TYPE 2 interrupt. IP is loaded from word location 00008 H and CS is loaded from the word location 0000A H.
    
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    (B) INTR (Interrupt Request) – It provides a single interrupt request and is activated by I/O port. This interrupt can be masked or delayed. It is a level triggered interrupt. It can receive any interrupt type, so the value of IP and CS will change on the interrupt type received.
    

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  Software Interrupts – These are instructions that are inserted within the program to generate interrupts. There are 256 software interrupts in 8086 microprocessor. The instructions are of the format INT type where type ranges from 00 to FF. The starting address ranges from 00000 H to 003FF H. These are 2 byte instructions. IP is loaded from type * 04 H and CS is loaded from the next address give by (type * 04) + 02 H. Some important software interrupts are:
  
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    (A) TYPE 0 corresponds to division by zero(0).
    
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    (B) TYPE 1 is used for single step execution for debugging of program.
    
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    (C) TYPE 2 represents NMI and is used in power failure conditions.
    
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    (D) TYPE 3 represents a break-point interrupt.
    
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    (E) TYPE 4 is the overflow interrupt.