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W77E532/W77E532A
Table 8. Vector locations for interrupt sources
SOURCE
VECTOR ADDRESS
Timer 0 Overflow
000Bh
Timer 1 Overflow
001Bh
Timer 2 Interrupt
002Bh
External Interrupt 2
0043h
External Interrupt 4
0053h
Watchdog Timer
0063h
SOURCE
External Interrupt 0
External Interrupt 1
Serial Port
Serial Port 1
External Interrupt 3
External Interrupt 5
VECTOR ADDRESS
0003h
0013h
0023h
003Bh
004Bh
005Bh
The vector table is not evenly spaced; this is to accommodate future expansions to the device family.
Execution continues from the vectored address till an RETI instruction is executed. On execution of the
RETI instruction the processor pops the Stack and loads the PC with the contents at the top of the
stack. The user must take care that the status of the stack is restored to what is was after the hardware
LCALL, if the execution is to return to the interrupted program. The processor does not notice anything
if the stack contents are modified and will proceed with execution from the address put back into PC.
Note that a RET instruction would perform exactly the same process as a RETI instruction, but it would
not inform the Interrupt Controller that the interrupt service routine is completed, and would leave the
controller still thinking that the service routine is underway.
Interrupt Response Time
The response time for each interrupt source depends on several factors, such as the nature of the
interrupt and the instruction underway. In the case of external interrupts INT0 to INT5 , they are
sampled at C3 of every machine cycle and then their corresponding interrupt flags Iex will be set or
reset. The Timer 0 and 1 overflow flags are set at C3 of the machine cycle in which overflow has
occurred. These flag values are polled only in the next machine cycle. If a request is active and all
three conditions are met, then the hardware generated LCALL is executed. This LCALL itself takes four
machine cycles to be completed. Thus there is a minimum time of five machine cycles between the
interrupt flag being set and the interrupt service routine being executed.
A longer response time should be anticipated if any of the three conditions are not met. If a higher or
equal priority is being serviced, then the interrupt latency time obviously depends on the nature of the
service routine currently being executed. If the polling cycle is not the last machine cycle of the
instruction being executed, then an additional delay is introduced. The maximum response time (if no
other interrupt is in service) occurs if the W77E532A is performing a write to IE, IP, EIE or EIP and then
executes a MUL or DIV instruction. From the time an interrupt source is activated, the longest reaction
time is 12 machine cycles. This includes 1 machine cycle to detect the interrupt, 2 machine cycles to
complete the IE, IP, EIE or EIP access, 5 machine cycles to complete the MUL or DIV instruction and 4
machine cycles to complete the hardware LCALL to the interrupt vector location.
Thus in a single-interrupt system the interrupt response time will always be more than 5 machine cycles
and not more than 12 machine cycles. The maximum latency of 12 machine cycle is 48 clock cycles.
Note that in the standard 8051 the maximum latency is 8 machine cycles which equals 96 machine
cycles. This is a 50% reduction in terms of clock periods.
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Publication Release Date: June 30, 2009
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