MC68HC08GP32A Datasheet, PDF (127/258 Pages) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc – Microcontrollers

Interrupts
13.3 Interrupts
An interrupt temporarily changes the sequence of program execution to respond to a particular event. An
interrupt does not stop the operation of the instruction being executed, but begins when the current
instruction completes its operation.
13.3.1 Effects
An interrupt:
• Saves the CPU registers on the stack. At the end of the interrupt, the RTI instruction recovers the
CPU registers from the stack so that normal processing can resume.
• Sets the interrupt mask (I bit) to prevent additional interrupts. Once an interrupt is latched, no other
interrupt can take precedence, regardless of its priority.
• Loads the program counter with a user-defined vector address
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4
STACKING ³
ORDER ₂
1
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CONDITION CODE REGISTER
ACCUMULATOR
INDEX REGISTER (LOW BYTE)*
PROGRAM COUNTER (HIGH BYTE)
PROGRAM COUNTER (LOW BYTE)
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2
3 _UNSTACKING
4
ORDER
5
$00FF DEFAULT ADDRESS ON RESET
*High byte of index register is not stacked.
Figure 13-4. Interrupt Stacking Order
After every instruction, the CPU checks all pending interrupts if the I bit is not set. If more than one
interrupt is pending when an instruction is done, the highest priority interrupt is serviced first. In the
example shown in Figure 13-5, if an interrupt is pending upon exit from the interrupt service routine, the
pending interrupt is serviced before the LDA instruction is executed.
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