Explain hardware interrupts in 8085.
• When a device interrupts, it actually wants the MP to give a service which is equivalent to asking the MP to call a subroutine. This subroutine is called ISR (Interrupt Service Routine)
• Interrupts:
• The 8085 microprocessor has 5 interrupts. They are presented below in the order of their priority (from lowest to highest):
• INTR is mask able 8080Acompatible interrupt. When the interrupt occurs the processor fetches from the bus one instruction.
• RST5.5 is a mask able interrupt. When this interrupt is received the processor saves the contents of the PC register into stack and branches to 2Ch (hexadecimal) address.
• RST6.5 is a mask able interrupt. When this interrupt is received the processor saves the contents of the PC register into stack and branches to 34Ch (hexadecimal) address.
• RST7.5 is a mask able interrupt. When this interrupt is received the processor saves the contents of the PC register into stack and branches to 3Ch (hexadecimal) address.
• Trap is a non-maskable interrupt. When this interrupt is received the processor saves the contents of the PC register into stack and branches to 24h (hexadecimal) address.
• All maskable interrupts can be enabled or disabled using EI and DI instructions. RST 5.5, RST6.5 and RST7.5 interrupts can be enabled or disabled individually using SIM instruction.