What does edge triggered and level triggered mean?
I didn't read you document really, but I can understand why you are confused. But it is a very simple concept really. Let me explain.
Triggering: This means making a circuit active. Making a circuit active means allowing the circuit to take input and give output. Like for example supposed we have a flip-flop. When the circuit is not triggered, even if you give some input data, it will not change the data stored inside the flip-flop nor will it change the output Q or Q'. Now there are basically two types of triggering. The triggering is given in form of a clock pulse or gating signal. Depending upon the type of triggering mechanism used, the circuit will become active at specific states of the clock pulse.
Level Triggering: In level triggering the circuit will become active when the gating or clock pulse is on a particular level. This level is decided by the designer. We can have a negative level triggering in which the circuit is active when the clock signal is low or a positive level triggering in which the circuit is active when the clock signal is high.
Edge Triggering: In edge triggering the circuit becomes active at negative or positive edge of the clock signal. For example if the circuit is positive edge triggered, it will take input at exactly the time in which the clock signal goes from low to high. Similarly input is taken at exactly the time in which the clock signal goes from high to low in negative edge triggering. But keep in mind after the the input, it can be processed in all the time till the next input is taken.
That is the general description of the triggering mechanisms and those also apply to the 8085 interrupts.
On an 8085, TRAP is a non-maskable interrupt normally used to handle errors such as a power failure.
If it were level triggered, its code could never execute because it's an unmaskable interrupt. The handler would start executing when it became active, but it would still be active, so the handler would start executing, but it would still be active, so the handler would start executing, etc., etc. Therefore it has to be edge triggered.
However, edge triggering is a problem when the line may have glitches. Glitches may cause the handler to be invoked multiple time as the line glitches. It's a very big problem with TRAP since it is non-maskable and results in a RST.
As a compromise, the TRAP works as if it is level triggered, except that it is only recognized when it has been low since the last time it was recognized. That ensures that the TRAP handler is only invoked once.
This is what they mean by "edge triggered and level triggered".
*Triggering* means making a circuit active. In level triggering the circuit will become active when the gating or clock pulse is on a particular level. In edge triggering the circuit becomes active at negative or positive edge of the clock signal.