i386

For the instruction set first introduced in the i386, see IA-32.

"386 DX" redirects here. For the Russian artist and musician, see Alexei Shulgin.

The Intel 386, originally released as 80386 and later renamed i386, is a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985.^[2] The first versions had 275,000 transistors^[3] and were the CPU of many workstations and high-end personal computers of the time. As the original implementation of the 32-bit extension of the 80286 architecture,^[4] the i386 instruction set, programming model, and binary encodings are still the common denominator for all 32-bit x86 processors, which is termed the i386-architecture, x86, or IA-32, depending on context.

i386

An Intel i386DX 16 MHz processor with a gray ceramic heat spreader.
General information
Launched	October 1985
Discontinued	September 28, 2007^[1]
Common manufacturer(s)	Intel AMD IBM
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	12 MHz to 40 MHz
Data width	32 bits (386SX: 16 bits)
Address width	32 bits (386SX: 24 bits)
Architecture and classification
Technology node	1.5µm to 1µm
Instruction set	x86-32
Physical specifications
Transistors	275,000
Co-processor	386DX: Intel 80387 386SX: Intel 80387SX
Package(s)	132-pin PGA, 132-pin PQFP; SX variant: 88-pin PGA, 100-pin BQFP with 0.635mm pitch
Socket(s)	PGA132
History
Predecessor	Intel 80286
Successor	i486
Support status
Unsupported

Intel A80386DX-20 CPU die image

The 32-bit i386 can correctly execute most code intended for the earlier 16-bit processors such as 8086 and 80286 that were ubiquitous in early PCs. Over the years, successively newer implementations of the same architecture have become several hundreds of times faster than the original 80386 (and thousands of times faster than the 8086).^[5] The 20 MHz version operates 4-5 MIPS. It also performs between 8,000 to 9,000 Dhrystones per second.^[6] A 33 MHz 80386 was reportedly measured to operate at about 11.4 MIPS.^[7]

Development of i386 technology began in 1982 under the internal name of P3.^[8] The tape-out of the 80386 development was finalized on July 1985.^[8] The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for software development workstations in October 1985.^[9] Manufacturing of the chips in significant quantities commenced in June 1986,^[10][11] along with the first plug-in device that allowed existing 80286-based computers to be upgraded to the 386, the Translator 386 by American Computer and Peripheral.^[12][13] Mainboards for 80386-based computer systems were cumbersome and expensive at first, but manufacturing was justified upon the 80386's mainstream adoption. The first personal computer to make use of the 80386 was the Deskpro 386, designed and manufactured by Compaq^[14] and marked the first time a fundamental component in the IBM PC compatible de facto standard was updated by a company other than IBM.

In May 2006, Intel announced that i386 production would stop at the end of September 2007.^[15] Although it had long been obsolete as a personal computer CPU, Intel and others had continued making the chip for embedded systems. Such systems using an i386 or one of many derivatives are common in aerospace technology and electronic musical instruments, among others. Some mobile phones also used (later fully static CMOS variants of) the i386 processor, such as BlackBerry 950^[16] and Nokia 9000 Communicator. Linux continued to support i386 processors until December 11, 2012; when the kernel cut 386-specific instructions in version 3.8.^[17]

Architecture

 

Block diagram of the i386 microarchitecture

i386 registers

^31 ... ^15 ... ^07 ... ^00 (bit position) Main registers (8/16/32 bits) EAX AX AL Accumulator register ECX CX CL Count register EDX DX DL Data register EBX BX BL Base register Index registers (16/32 bits) ESP SP Stack Pointer EBP BP Base Pointer ESI SI Source Index EDI DI Destination Index Program counter (16/32 bits) EIP IP Instruction Pointer Segment selectors (16 bits)   CS Code Segment   DS Data Segment   ES Extra Segment   FS F Segment   GS G Segment   SS Stack Segment Status register   ^17 ^16 ^15 ^14 ^13 ^12 ^11 ^10 ^09 ^08 ^07 ^06 ^05 ^04 ^03 ^02 ^01 ^00 (bit position)   V R 0 N IOPL O D I T S Z 0 A 0 P 1 C EFlags

The processor was a significant evolution in the x86 architecture, and extended a long line of processors that stretched back to the Intel 8008. The predecessor of the 80386 was the Intel 80286, a 16-bit processor with a segment-based memory management and protection system. The 80386 added a three-stage instruction pipeline which it brings up to total of 6-stage instruction pipeline, extended the architecture from 16-bits to 32-bits, and added an on-chip memory management unit.^[18] This paging translation unit made it much easier to implement operating systems that used virtual memory. It also offered support for register debugging.

The 80386 featured three operating modes: real mode, protected mode and virtual mode. The protected mode, which debuted in the 286, was extended to allow the 386 to address up to 4 GB of memory. With the addition of segmented addressing system, it can expand up to 64 terabytes of virtual memory.^[19] The all new virtual 8086 mode (or VM86) made it possible to run one or more real mode programs in a protected environment, although some programs were not compatible. It features scaled indexing and 64-bit barrel shifter.^[20]

The ability for a 386 to be set up to act like it had a flat memory model in protected mode despite the fact that it uses a segmented memory model in all modes was arguably the most important feature change for the x86 processor family until AMD released x86-64 in 2003.

Several new instructions have been added to 386: BSF, BSR, BT, BTS, BTR, BTC, CDQ, CWDE, LFS, LGS, LSS, MOVSX, MOVZX, SETcc, SHLD, SHRD.

Two new segment registers have been added (FS and GS) for general-purpose programs, single Machine Status Word of 286 grew into eight control registers CR0–CR7. Debug registers DR0–DR7 were added for hardware breakpoints. New forms of MOV instruction are used to access them.

Chief architect in the development of the 80386 was John H. Crawford.^[21] He was responsible for extending the 80286 architecture and instruction set to 32-bit, and then led the microprogram development for the 80386 chip.

The i486 and P5 Pentium line of processors were descendants of the i386 design.

Data types

The following data types are directly supported and thus implemented by one or more i386 machine instructions; these data types are briefly described here.^[22]:

• Bit (boolean value), bit field (group of up to 32 bits) and bit string (up to 4 Gbit in length).
• 8-bit integer (byte), either signed (range −128..127) or unsigned (range 0..255).
• 16-bit integer, either signed (range −32,768..32,767) or unsigned (range 0..65,535).
• 32-bit integer, either signed (range −2³¹..2³¹−1) or unsigned (range 0..2³²−1).
• Offset, a 16- or 32-bit displacement referring to a memory location (using any addressing mode).
• Pointer, a 16-bit selector together with a 16- or 32-bit offset.
• Character (8-bit character code).
• String, a sequence of 8-, 16- or 32-bit words (up to 4 Gbit in length).^[23]
• BCD, decimal digits (0..9) represented by unpacked bytes.
• Packed BCD, two BCD digits in one byte (range 0..99).

Example code

The following i386 assembly source code is for a subroutine named _strtolower that copies a null-terminated ASCIIZ character string from one location to another, converting all alphabetic characters to lower case. The string is copied one byte (8-bit character) at a time.

00000000 00000000 55 00000001 89 E5 00000003 8B 75 0C 00000006 8B 7D 08 00000009 8A 06 0000000B 46 0000000C 3C 41 0000000E 7C 06 00000010 3C 5A 00000012 7F 02 00000014 04 20 00000016 88 07 00000018 47 00000019 3C 00 0000001B 75 EC 0000001D 5D 0000001E C3 0000001F

; _strtolower: ; Copy a null-terminated ASCII string, converting ; all alphabetic characters to lower case. ; ; Entry stack parameters ; [ESP+8] = src, Address of source string ; [ESP+4] = dst, Address of target string ; [ESP+0] = Return address ; _strtolower proc push ebp ;Set up the call frame mov ebp,esp mov esi,[ebp+12] ;Set ESI = src mov edi,[ebp+8] ;Set EDI = dst loop mov al,[esi] ;Load AL from [src] inc esi ;Increment src cmp al,'A' ;If AL < 'A', jl copy ; Skip conversion cmp al,'Z' ;If AL > 'Z', jg copy ; Skip conversion add al,'a'-'A' ;Convert AL to lowercase copy mov [edi],al ;Store AL to [dst] inc edi ;Increment dst cmp al,0 ;If AL <> 0, jne loop ; Repeat the loop done pop ebp ;Restore the prev call frame ret ;Return to caller end proc

The example code uses the EBP (base pointer) register to establish a call frame, an area on the stack that contains all of the parameters and local variables for the execution of the subroutine. This kind of calling convention supports reentrant and recursive code and has been used by Algol-like languages since the late 1950s. A flat memory model is assumed, specifically, that the DS and ES segments address the same region of memory.

Chip variants

80386SX

 

A surface-mount version of Intel 80386SX processor in a Compaq Deskpro computer. It is non-upgradable unless hot-air circuit-board rework is performed

 

Die of Intel 80386SX

 

i386SL from 1990

In 1988, Intel introduced the 80386SX, most often referred to as the 386SX, a cut-down version of the 80386 with a 16-bit data bus, mainly intended for lower-cost PCs aimed at the home, educational, and small-business markets, while the 386DX remained the high-end variant used in workstations, servers, and other demanding tasks. The CPU remained fully 32-bit internally, but the 16-bit bus was intended to simplify circuit-board layout and reduce total cost.^[24] The 16-bit bus simplified designs but hampered performance. Only 24 pins were connected to the address bus, therefore limiting addressing to 16 MB,^[25] but this was not a critical constraint at the time. Performance differences were due not only to differing data-bus widths, but also due to performance-enhancing cache memories often employed on boards using the original chip.

The original 80386 was subsequently renamed i386DX to avoid confusion. However, Intel subsequently used the "DX" suffix to refer to the floating-point capability of the i486DX. The 387SX was an 80387 part that was compatible with the 386SX (i.e. with a 16-bit databus). The 386SX was packaged in a surface-mount QFP and sometimes offered in a socket to allow for an upgrade.

80386SL

The 80386SL was introduced as a power-efficient version for laptop computers. The processor offered several power-management options (e.g. SMM), as well as different "sleep" modes to conserve battery power. It also contained support for an external cache of 16 to 64 KB. The extra functions and circuit implementation techniques caused this variant to have over 3 times as many transistors as the i386DX. The i386SL was first available at 20 MHz clock speed,^[26] with the 25 MHz model later added.^[27]

Business importance

The first PC based on the Intel 80386 was the Compaq Deskpro 386. By extending the 16/24-bit IBM PC/AT standard into a natively 32-bit computing environment, Compaq became the first company to design and manufacture such a major technical hardware advance on the PC platform. IBM was offered use of the 80386, but had manufacturing rights for the earlier 80286. IBM therefore chose to rely on that processor for a couple more years. The early success of the Compaq Deskpro 386 played an important role in legitimizing the PC "clone" industry and in de-emphasizing IBM's role within it.

Prior to the 386, the difficulty of manufacturing microchips and the uncertainty of reliable supply made it desirable that any mass-market semiconductor be multi-sourced, that is, made by two or more manufacturers, the second and subsequent companies manufacturing under license from the originating company. The 386 was for a time (4.7 years) only available from Intel, since Andy Grove, Intel's CEO at the time, made the decision not to encourage other manufacturers to produce the processor as second sources. This decision was ultimately crucial to Intel's success in the market.^{[citation needed]} The 386 was the first significant microprocessor to be single-sourced. Single-sourcing the 386 allowed Intel greater control over its development and substantially greater profits in later years.

AMD introduced its compatible Am386 processor in March 1991 after overcoming legal obstacles, thus ending Intel's 4.7-year monopoly on 386-compatible processors. From 1991 IBM also manufactured 386 chips under license for use only in IBM PCs and boards.

Compatibles

 

Intel i386 packaged by IBM

• The AMD Am386SX and Am386DX were almost exact clones of the i386SX and i386DX. Legal disputes caused production delays for several years, but AMD's 40 MHz part eventually became very popular with computer enthusiasts as a low-cost and low-power alternative to the 25 MHz 486SX. The power draw was further reduced in the "notebook models" (Am386 DXL/SXL/DXLV/SXLV), which could operate with 3.3 V and were implemented in fully static CMOS circuitry.
• Chips and Technologies Super386 38600SX and 38600DX were developed using reverse engineering. They sold poorly, due to some technical errors and incompatibilities, as well as their late appearance on the market. They were therefore short-lived products.
• Cyrix Cx486SLC/Cx486DLC could be (simplistically) described as a kind of 386/486 hybrid chip that included a small amount of on-chip cache. It was popular among computer enthusiasts but did poorly with OEMs. The Cyrix Cx486SLC and Cyrix Cx486DLC processors were pin-compatible with i386SX and i386DX respectively. These processors were also manufactured and sold by Texas Instruments.
• IBM 386SLC and 486SLC/DLC were variants of Intel's design which contained a large amount of on-chip cache (8 KB, and later 16 KB). The agreement with Intel limited their use to IBM's own line of computers and upgrade boards only, so they were not available on the open market.

Early problems

Intel originally intended for the 80386 to debut at 16 MHz. However, due to poor yields, it was instead introduced at 12.5 MHz.^{[citation needed]}

Early in production, Intel discovered a marginal circuit that could cause a system to return incorrect results from 32-bit multiply operations. Not all of the processors already manufactured were affected, so Intel tested its inventory. Processors that were found to be bug-free were marked with a double sigma (ΣΣ), and affected processors were marked "16 BIT S/W ONLY". These latter processors were sold as good parts, since at the time 32-bit capability was not relevant for most users. Such chips are now extremely rare and became collectible.^{[citation needed]}

The i387 math coprocessor was not ready in time for the introduction of the 80386, and so many of the early 80386 motherboards instead provided a socket and hardware logic to make use of an 80287. In this configuration the FPU operated asynchronously to the CPU, usually with a clock rate of 10 MHz. The original Compaq Deskpro 386 is an example of such design. However, this was an annoyance to those who depended on floating-point performance, as the performance advantages of the 80387 over the 80287 were significant.^{[citation needed]}

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  A very early 80386 at 12 MHz (A80386-12), before the 32-bit multiply bug was found

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  An A80386-16 marked "16 BIT S/W ONLY" with the multiply bug

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  A bug-free A80386-16 marked "ΣΣ"

Pin-compatible upgrades

 

Typical 386 upgrade CPUs from Cyrix and Texas Instruments

Intel later offered a modified version of its 486DX in i386 packaging, branded as the Intel RapidCAD. This provided an upgrade path for users with i386-compatible hardware. The upgrade was a pair of chips that replaced both the i386 and i387. Since the 486DX design contained an FPU, the chip that replaced the i386 contained the floating-point functionality, and the chip that replaced the i387 served very little purpose. However, the latter chip was necessary in order to provide the FERR signal to the mainboard and appear to function as a normal floating-point unit.

Third parties offered a wide range of upgrades, for both SX and DX systems. The most popular ones were based on the Cyrix 486DLC/SLC core, which typically offered a substantial speed improvement due to its more efficient instruction pipeline and internal L1 SRAM cache. The cache was usually 1 KB, or sometimes 8 KB in the TI variant. Some of these upgrade chips (such as the 486DRx2/SRx2) were marketed by Cyrix themselves, but they were more commonly found in kits offered by upgrade specialists such as Kingston, Evergreen and Improve-It Technologies. Some of the fastest CPU upgrade modules featured the IBM SLC/DLC family (notable for its 16 KB L1 cache), or even the Intel 486 itself. Many 386 upgrade kits were advertised as being simple drop-in replacements, but often required complicated software to control the cache or clock doubling. Part of the problem was that on most 386 motherboards, the A20 line was controlled entirely by the motherboard with the CPU being unaware, which caused problems on CPUs with internal caches.

Overall, it was very difficult to configure upgrades to produce the results advertised on the packaging, and upgrades were often not very stable or not fully compatible.

Models and variants

Early 5 V models

i386DX

 

Intel i386DX, 25 MHz

Original version, released in October 1985. The 16 MHz version was available for 299 USD in quantities of 100.^[28] The 20 MHz version was avaiable for USD $599 in quantities of 100.^[29]

• Capable of working with 16- or 32-bit external busses
• Package: PGA-132 which was available in sampling for fourth quarter of 1985^[30] or PQFP-132
• Process: First types CHMOS III, 1.5 µm, later CHMOS IV, 1 µm
• Die size: 104 mm² (ca. 10 mm × 10 mm) in CHMOS III and 39 mm² (6 mm × 6.5 mm) in CHMOS IV.
• Transistor count: 275,000^[3]
• Specified max clock: 12 MHz (early models), later 16, 20, 25 and 33 MHz

M80386

The military version was made using the CHMOS III process technology. It was made to withstand 105 Rads (Si) or greater. It was available for USD $945 each in quantities of 100.^[31]

i386SX

 

80386SX 16 MHz

RapidCAD

Main article: RapidCAD

A specially packaged Intel 486DX and a dummy floating-point unit (FPU) designed as pin-compatible replacements for an i386 processor and i387 FPU.

Versions for embedded systems

80376

Main article: Intel 80376

This was an embedded version of the 80386SX which did not support real mode and paging in the MMU.

i386EX, i386EXTB and i386EXTC

Main article: Intel 80386EX

 

Intel i386EXTC, 25 MHz

System and power management and built in peripheral and support functions: Two 82C59A interrupt controllers; Timer, Counter (3 channels); Asynchronous SIO (2 channels); Synchronous SIO (1 channel); Watchdog timer (Hardware/Software); PIO. Usable with 80387SX or i387SL FPUs.

• Data/address bus: 16 / 26 bits
• Package: PQFP-132, SQFP-144 and PGA-168
• Process: CHMOS V, 0.8 µm
• Specified max clock:
  • i386EX: 16 MHz @2.7–3.3 volts or 20 MHz @3.0–3.6 volts or 25 MHz @4.5–5.5 volts
  • i386EXTB: 20 MHz @2.7–3.6 volts or 25 MHz @3.0–3.6 volts
  • i386EXTC: 25 MHz @4.5–5.5 volts or 33 MHz @4.5–5.5 volts

i386CXSA and i386SXSA (or i386SXTA)

 

Intel i386CXSA, 25 MHz

Transparent power management mode, integrated MMU and TTL compatible inputs (only 386SXSA). Usable with i387SX or i387SL FPUs.

• Data/address bus: 16 / 26 bits (24 bits for i386SXSA)
• Package: BQFP-100
• Voltage: 4.5–5.5 volts (25 and 33 MHz); 4.75–5.25 volts (40 MHz)
• Process: CHMOS V, 0.8 µm
• Specified max clock: 25, 33, 40 MHz

i386CXSB

Transparent power management mode and integrated MMU. Usable with i387SX or i387SL FPUs.

• Data/address bus: 16 / 26 bits
• Package: BQFP-100
• Voltage: 3.0 volts (16 MHz) or 3.3 volts (25 MHz)
• Process: CHMOS V, 0.8 µm
• Specified max clock: 16, 25 MHz

Obsolescence

Windows 95 was the only entry in the Windows 9x series to officially support the 386, requiring at least a 386DX, though a 486 or better was recommended;^[32] Windows 98 requires a 486DX or higher.^[33] In the Windows NT family, Windows NT 3.51 was the last version with 386 support.^[34][35]

Debian GNU/Linux removed 386 support with the release of 3.1 (Sarge) in 2005.^[36] Citing the maintenance burden around SMP primitives, the Linux kernel developers cut support from the development codebase in December 2012, later released as kernel version 3.8.^[17]

Among the BSDs, FreeBSD's 5.x releases were the last to support the 386; support for the 386SX was cut with release 5.2,^[37] while the remaining 386 support was removed with the 6.0 release in 2005.^[38] OpenBSD removed 386 support with version 4.2 (2007),^[39] DragonFly BSD with release 1.12 (2008),^[40] and NetBSD with the 5.0 release (2009).^[41]

See also

• List of Intel microprocessors

Notes and references

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3. (Cornell) October 11, 2012
4. Which itself was an extension of the 8086-architecture with advanced memory management functions and significantly better performance.
5. Not counting the advances in the performance of corresponding x87 implementations. These are measured in tens of thousands of times, compared to the original 8087, or hundreds of thousands of times compared to software implementations of floating point on the 8086.
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18. Intel Corporation, "Extending the Legacy of Leadership: The 80386 Arrives", Special 32-Bit Issue Solutions, November/December 1985, page 2
19. Rant, Jon; "Extending the Legacy of Leadership: The 80386 Arrives", Intel Corporation, Special 32-Bit Issue Solutions, November/December 1985, page 2
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22. A. K. Ray, K. M. Bhurchandi, “Advanced microprocessors and peripherals”.
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24. This was a similar approach to that used by Intel with the 8088, a derivative of the Intel 8086, that was used in the original IBM PC.
25. The 16 MB limit was similar to that of the 68000, a comparable processor.
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27. Mueller, Scott. "Microprocessor Types and Specifications > P3 (386) Third-Generation Processors". InformIT. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
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29. Intel Corporation, "New Product Focus Components: The 32-Bit Computing Engine Full Speed Ahead", Solutions, May/June 1987, page 10
30. Ashborn, Jim; "Advanced Packaging: A Little Goes A Long Way", Intel Corporation, Solutions, January/February 1986, Page 2
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External links

• Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference Manual 1986
• Intel 80386 processor family
• Intel 231746-001 Introduction to the 80386 Apr86 (April 1986) and Including the 80386 Data Sheet Intel 231630-002 80386 HIGH PERFORMANCE 32-BIT MICROPROCESSOR WITH INTEGRATED MEMORY MANAGEMENT—Data Sheet for 80386-12 and 80386-16
• 1988 Intel Microprocessors and Peripheral Handbook Volume 1 Microprocessor including 80386 HIGH PERFORMANCE 32-BIT CHMOS MICROPROCESSOR WITH INTEGRATED MEMORY MANAGEMENT October 1987 Order Number: 231630-004
• 1989 Intel Microprocessor and Peripheral Handbook Vol 1 Microprocessor including 386™ MICROPROCESSOR HIGH PERFORMANCE 32-BIT CHMOS MICROPROCESSOR WITH INTEGRATED MEMORY MANAGEMENT November 1988 Order Number: 231630-005
• Detailed list of early 80386 steppings (revisions)