Intel 8086-1 - Manual (Page 9)

8086
can occur between 8086 bus cycles These are re-
ferred to as ‘‘Idle’’ states (T
i
) or inactive CLK cycles
The processor uses these cycles for internal house-
keeping
During T
1
of any bus cycle the ALE (Address Latch
Enable) signal is emitted (by either the processor or
the 8288 bus controller depending on the MN MX
strap) At the trailing edge of this pulse a valid ad-
dress and certain status information for the cycle
may be latched
Status bits S
0
S
1
and S
2
are used in maximum
mode by the bus controller to identify the type of
bus transaction according to the following table
S
2
S
1
S
0
Characteristics
0 (LOW) 0 0 Interrupt Acknowledge
0 0 1 Read I O
0 1 0 Write I O
0 1 1 Halt
1 (HIGH) 0 0 Instruction Fetch
1 0 1 Read Data from Memory
1 1 0 Write Data to Memory
1 1 1 Passive (no bus cycle)
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Figure 5 Basic System Timing
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