PIC16F870_13 Datasheet, PDF (98/172 Pages) Microchip Technology – 28/40-Pin, 8-Bit CMOS FLASH Microcontrollers

PIC16F870/871
11.11 Context Saving During Interrupts
During an interrupt, only the return PC value is saved
on the stack. Typically, users may wish to save key reg-
isters during an interrupt, (i.e., W register and STATUS
register). This will have to be implemented in software.
For the PIC16F870/871 devices, the register W_TEMP
must be defined in both banks 0 and 1 and must be
defined at the same offset from the bank base address
(i.e., If W_TEMP is defined at 0x20 in bank 0, it must
also be defined at 0xA0 in bank 1). The registers,
PCLATH_TEMP and STATUS_TEMP, are only defined
in bank 0.
Since the upper 16 bytes of each bank are common in
the PIC16F870/871 devices, temporary holding regis-
ters W_TEMP, STATUS_TEMP, and PCLATH_TEMP
should be placed in here. These 16 locations don’t
require banking and therefore, make it easier for con-
text save and restore. The same code shown in
Example 11-1 can be used.
EXAMPLE 11-1: SAVING STATUS, W, AND PCLATH REGISTERS IN RAM
MOVWF
SWAPF
CLRF
MOVWF
MOVF
MOVWF
CLRF
:
:(ISR)
:
MOVF
MOVWF
SWAPF
MOVWF
SWAPF
SWAPF
W_TEMP
STATUS,W
STATUS
STATUS_TEMP
PCLATH, W
PCLATH_TEMP
PCLATH
PCLATH_TEMP, W
PCLATH
STATUS_TEMP,W
STATUS
W_TEMP,F
W_TEMP,W
;Copy W to TEMP register
;Swap status to be saved into W
;bank 0, regardless of current bank, Clears IRP,RP1,RP0
;Save status to bank zero STATUS_TEMP register
;Only required if using pages 1, 2 and/or 3
;Save PCLATH into W
;Page zero, regardless of current page
;(Insert user code here)
;Restore PCLATH
;Move W into PCLATH
;Swap STATUS_TEMP register into W
;(sets bank to original state)
;Move W into STATUS register
;Swap W_TEMP
;Swap W_TEMP into W
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