Why is clock frequency in a 8085 processor is divided by two

8085

Why is the Clock frequency in a 8085 processor is devided by two? What advantages are achieved by this?

Re: 8085

Where is the clock frequency divided by 2?

Re: 8085

The clock frequency is devided by 2 inside the 8085 microcontroller ..

Frankly, I don't recall any advantage of deviding the clock frequency, and it is more like an artifact of the 8080 arangement, where the latter used to use 2-phase clock, generated by an external clock IC, the 8224, to perform reading and writing cycles using another external IC, the 8228 memory-I/O controller.
In 8085 both these external ICs were incorporated within the microcontroller structure, but as far as timing was concerned, it was almost identical microcontroller to 8080.
So it became a 3MHz microcontroller !!!, whereas in fact it was still a 1 .. 1.5MHz one !!! and the most important invention was the single +5V supply .. that is why the name was changed from 8080 to 8085 ..

Re: 8085

I thought 8085 was just a processor and not a microcontroller. Is it a microcontroller? Also its been a long time since I looked into it, but maybe they divide the clock to get a 50% duty cycle exactly.