What is the function of the INTA’ signal in the 8085 microprocessor?
To acknowledge an interrupt request
The 8085 uses a vectored/non-vectored interrupt handshake, and the INTA' (Interrupt Acknowledge) pin is the microprocessor's active-LOW reply to the general-purpose INTR interrupt input. It is an output signal, and its whole purpose is to tell the interrupting device, "I have seen your request and I am ready to service it — now put your instruction on the data bus."
The complete sequence works like this:
Why the other choices are wrong: enabling and disabling interrupts is done in software by the EI and DI instructions (and by the interrupt-enable flip-flop), not by any pin called INTA'. Resetting the processor is the job of the separate RESET IN' input, which clears the program counter and internal registers — a completely different operation. Thus INTA' neither enables, disables, nor resets; it strictly acknowledges an interrupt request.
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