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90 Timing and Control (Continued)

A reset to the CPU will force both IFF1 and IFF2 to the reset

state disabling maskable interrupts They can be enabled by

an EI instruction at any time by the programmer When an EI

instruction is executed any pending interrupt requests will

not be accepted until after the instruction following EI has

been executed This single instruction delay is necessary in

situations where the following instruction is a return instruc-

tion and interrupts must not be allowed until the return has

been completed The EI instruction sets both IFF1 and IFF2

to the enable state When the CPU accepts an interrupt

both IFF1 and IFF2 are automatically reset inhibiting further

interrupts until the programmer wishes to issue a new EI

instruction Note that for all the previous cases IFF1 and

IFF2 are always equal

The function of IFF2 is to retain the status of IFF1 when a

non-maskable interrupt occurs When a non-maskable inter-

rupt is accepted IFF1 is reset to prevent further interrupts

until reenabled by the programmer Thus after a non-mask-

able interrupt has been accepted maskable interrupts are

disabled but the previous state of IFF1 is saved by IFF2

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FIGURE 17 Interrupt Mode 2

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