Multiple choice

While calculating a division, the microprocessor 8085 uses which of the following?

  1. Hardware divider chip, if available; otherwise, by using successive subtraction in an adder chip of its ALU

  2. Hardware divider chip, if available; otherwise, by using successive subtraction in a subtractor chip of its ALU

  3. Shift and subtract algorithm

  4. Shift and add algorithm

  5. Shift and shift algorithm
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Explanation

If the hardware chip is available, the processor will use it for division. If it is not available, then successive subtraction is used and the hardware used by the CPU is adder (using 2's complement representation).

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