Z80 Family CPU PDF User Manual

Input or Output Cycles
Figure7 illustrates an I/O read or I/O write operation. During I/O operations a single wait state is automatically inserted. The reason is that during I/O signal goes active until the CPU operations, the time from when the IORQ must sample the WAIT line is very short. Without this extra state, sufficient time does not exist for an I/O port to decode its address and activate the WAIT line if a wait is required. Also, without this wait state, it is difficult to design MOS I/O devices that can operate at full CPU speed. During this wait state time, the WAIT request signal is sampled. During a read I/O operation, the RD line is used to enable the addressed port onto the data bus just as in the case of a memory read. For I/O write operations, the WR line is used as a clock to the I/O port.

Bus Request/Acknowledge Cycle
Figure8 illustrates the timing for a Bus Request/Acknowledge cycle. The BUSREQ signal is sampled by the CPU with the rising edge of the last clock period of any machine cycle. If the BUSREQ signal is active, the CPU sets its address, data, and tristate control signals to the high-impedance state with the rising edge of the next clock pulse. At that time, any external device can control the buses to transfer data between memory and I/O devices. (This operation is generally known as Direct Memory Access [DMA] using cycle stealing.) The maximum time for the CPU to respond to a bus request is the length of a machine cycle and the external controller can maintain control of the bus for as many clock cycles as is required. If very long DMA cycles are used, and dynamic memories are used, the external controller also performs the refresh function. This situation only occurs if very large blocks of data are transferred under DMA control. During a bus request cycle, the CPU cannot be interrupted by either an NMI
or an INT signal.

Interrupt Request/Acknowledge Cycle
Figure9 illustrates the timing associated with an interrupt cycle. The CPU with the rising edge of the last clock at the samples the interrupt signal (INT) end of any instruction. The signal is not accepted if the internal CPU software controlled interrupt enable flip-flop is not set or if the BUSREQ signal is active. When the signal is accepted, a special M1 cycle is generated. During this special M1 cycle, the IORQ signal becomes active
(instead of the normal MREQ) to indicate that the interrupting device can place an 8-bit vector on the data bus. Two wait states are automatically added to this cycle. These states are added so that a ripple priority interrupt scheme can be easily implemented. The two wait states allow sufficient time for the ripple signals to stabilize and identify which I/O device must insert the response vector. Refer to Chapter 6 for details on how the interrupt response vector is utilized by the CPU.

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