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- Z80 Control Signals:
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- MREQ (Output, active low)
- Signals that the address on the address bus is a valid memory address.
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- RD (Output, active low)
- Signals that the Z80 is ready to read from the data bus. Present only
- when the address bus holds a valid address.
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- WR (Output, active low)
- Signals that the Z80 wants to send data, and is present only when the
- address bus holds a valid address and the data bus valid data.
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- M1 (Output, active low)
- Indicates that the z80 is in Machine Cycle 1 State (Instruction
- fetch.)
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- IOREQ (Output, active low)
- Indicates that the address on the address bus (mainly a0 to a7, but a8
- to a15 are also used with some instructions) is a valid I/O port
- address.
- Normal I/O operations never occur during M1. The combination M1 and
- IORQ is used to acknowlede (INTA) a maskable interrupt.
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- RFSH (Output, active low)
- Indicates that a0 to a6 hold an address that can be used to refresh
- dynamic memories. MREQ appears with RFSH.
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- HALT (Output, active low)
- Indicates that the CPU has halted following a Halt instruction.
- Meanwhile, the memory refresh continues.
-
- WAIT (Input, active low)
- Used by memory or I/O to indicate that the requested data transfer
- cannot yet take place. The CPU pauses and no memory refresh is done.
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- RESET (Input, active low)
- i) PC, I and R are set to zero.
- ii) Interrupts are disabled. Interrupt Mode 0 is set.
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- BUSRQ (Input, active low.)
- At the end of the current machine cycle, z80 sets all bus signals, the
- data- and the address bus to a high impedance state. When this is
- done, it sets BUSAK low.
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- BUSAK (Output, active low)
- Reply to a BUSRQ. Indicates that the z80 has released the buses.
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- NMI (Input, triggered by a negative edge.)
- Current instruction finishes. IFF1 is copied to IFF2. IFF1 is then
- reset. PC is set to Hex 0066. The RETI instruction copies IFF2 to IFF1
- and pulls the PC from the stack.
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- INT (Input, active low. Detected only if IFF1 is set.)
- IFF1 and IFF2 are reset. Current instruction finishes. Z80 sets M1 and
- IORQ low and waits.
- In mode 0, the calling device is expected to put an instruction on
- the data bus during the next cycle. If the instruction takes more than
- one byte, the remaining bytes are read one after one without
- incrementing the PC. The instruction must be a Call or Rst, since the
- PC is not automatically pushed on the stack in mode 0.
- In mode 1, the data bus is ignored. The PC is pushed on the stack
- and then set to Hex 0038.
- In mode 2, the PC is pushed on the stack before IORQ goes low. The
- calling device puts the lower 8 bits of the address of the interrupt
- vector on the data bus during the next cycle. The upper 8 bits are
- taken from the I register. PC is then loaded from the full interrupt
- vector address.
- IORQ and M1 go back high and the routine is serviced.
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