The lowest priority interrupt in the 8085 microprocessor is INTR, unless you also consider the software interrupts, RST 0 through RST 7, which are even lower.
RST 5.5 is level triggered interrupt & maskable also. it can be masked by using SIM intrruction. Vector address of the RST 5.5 interrupt is 002Ch
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The 8085 microprocessor can access 65536 (2^16) locations in memory, and 256 (2^8) locations in I/O space.
It is possible to allow nested interrupts. This is often done when there is a heirarchy of interrupts, some with higher priority than others. In order for this to work, the second interrupt must not be allowed to influence the progress of the first interrupt. We call this being "thread safe". In a nested scheme, an interrupt mask is set so that higher priority interrupts can be permitted, while blocking interrupts of the same or lower priority, and then interrupts are reenabled during the interrupt service routine. At the conclusion of the first routine, interrupts are disabled again, the mask is restored, and the normal interrupt return sequence is executed. In the 8085, this can be supported using the Read Interrupt Mask (RIM) and Set Interrupt Mask (SIM) instructions. While not strictly required, the logical priority is often INTR, RST5.5, RST6.6, RST7.5, and then TRAP, in order of increasing priority.
The 8085 Microprocessor has five interrupts signals that can be used to interrupt a program execution. They are:INTR-Interrupt Request (Input): This is used as a general -purpose interrupt.INTA-Interrupt Acknowledge (Output): This is used to acknowledge an interrupt.RST 7.5, RST 6.5, RST 5.5-Restart interrupts (Inputs): These are vectored interrupts that transfer the program controls to specify memory locations. There have higher priorities than the INTR interrupt. Among these three, the priority order is 7.5, 6.5 and 5.5.TRAP (Input): This is a non-mask able interrupt and has the highest priority.In addition to the interrupts, three pins - RESET, HOLD, and READY - accept the externally initiated signals as inputs. The HOLD signal indicates that a peripheral such as a DMA (Direct Memory Access) controller is requesting the use of the address and data buses. The READY signal is used to delay the microprocessor READ or WRITE cycles until a slow-responding peripheral is ready to send or accept data. When this signal goes low, the microprocessor waits for an integral number of clock cycles until it goes high. Lastly, when the RESET IN signal goes low, the program counter is set to zero, the buses are tri-stated, and the MPU is reset and the RESET OUT signal indicates that the MPU is being reset and used to reset other devices.To respond to the HOLD request, the 8085 Microprocessor has one signal, called HLDA (Hold Acknowledge). It acknowledges the HOLD request.
The highest priority interrupt in the 8085 is the TRAP interrupt.
when interrupts requests arrive from two or more devices simultaneously , the process has to decide which request should be serviced first and which one should delayed. the processor takes the decision with the help of interrupt priorities.
if u want to execute high priority interrupt,at that time of low priority running.So, we can mask the low priority interrupt and execute the high priority interrupt.
It is an interrupt having highest priority in 8085
RSTn(0-7) is software interrupt & RST(7.5,6.5,5.5) are INTEL's 8085 maskable interrupts their priority is respectively 7.5,6.5,5.5.RSTn.5 is hardware intterrupt and it is controlled by the external pin available on the chip of 8085. it is used to interrupt the microprocessor from its normal execution and tends to execute some ISR(interrupt service routine)
The peripheral with the highest interrupt priority depends on the hardware and software design of the particular system. In the 8085, the TRAP interrupt has the highest priority. The peripheral connected to TRAP is your choice.
The TRAP interrupt is nomaskable in the 8085 microprocessor because TRAP is intended to indicate some serious system problem, or a hardware assisted debugger single step facility.
In most of the Intel processors, the highest priority interrupt is the NMI line (called TRAP in the 8085). NMI means a non-maskable interrupt, and that means it cannot be delayed or ignored. The NMI line is usually used when there are problems such as non-recoverable errors, but it could be used for debugging or profiling.Most of the Intel CPUs have 2 interrupt lines, the NMI line and the standard interrupt line. The regular interrupt line is connected to one or more interrupt controllers which split that interrupt signal to different devices. The NMI line is for the most critical processes in the computer.
RIM is Read Interrupt Mask. It is used to access the interrupt mask register, which contains the status of the three interrupt masks and the serial input data pin.
8085 is a microprocessor designed by Intel
The 5.5 in RST 5.5 means that the interrupt vector is located between RST 5 and RST 6.
In the 8085 microprocessor, a hardware interrupt is a signal from an external device that temporarily halts the CPU's current operations to allow the device to communicate with the processor. A vector interrupt specifically refers to an interrupt that has a predefined memory address (vector) associated with it, which the processor jumps to when servicing the interrupt. For instance, the 8085 has several hardware interrupts, such as INTR, RST 7.5, RST 6.5, and RST 5.5, each with its own unique vector address, allowing for efficient and organized handling of multiple interrupt sources. This mechanism enables real-time processing and responsiveness to external events in embedded systems.