Organization of Intel 8086 Microprocessor :

Intel 8086 was the first 16-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1978.

Register Organization of 8086

All the registers of 8086 are 16-bit registers. The general purpose registers can be used as either 8-bit registers or 16-bit registers.
The register set of 8086 can be categorized into 4 different groups. The register organization of 8086 is shown in the Figure 11.5.

Figure 11.5: Register Organization of 8086.