Intel 80C188XL, 80C186XL user manual Interrupt Acknowledge Sequence, Polling, Fixed Interrupt Types

INTERRUPT CONTROL UNIT

8.3.4Interrupt Acknowledge Sequence

During the interrupt acknowledge sequence, the Interrupt Control Unit passes the interrupt type to the CPU. The CPU then multiplies the interrupt type by four to derive the interrupt vector ad- dress in the interrupt vector table. (“Interrupt/Exception Processing” on page 2-39 describes the interrupt acknowledge sequence and Figure 2-25 on page 2-40 illustrates the interrupt vector ta- ble.)

The interrupt types for all sources are fixed and unalterable (see Table 8-2). The Interrupt Control Unit passes these types to the CPU internally. The first external indication of the interrupt ac- knowledge sequence is the CPU fetch from the interrupt vector table.

In cascade mode, the external 8259A supplies the interrupt type. In this case, the CPU runs an external interrupt acknowledge cycle to fetch the interrupt type from the 8259A (see “Interrupt Acknowledge Bus Cycle” on page 3-25).

Table 8-2. Fixed Interrupt Types

Interrupt Name	Interrupt Type
Timer 0	8
Timer 1	18
Timer 2	19
DMA0	10
DMA1	11
INT0	12
INT1	13
INT2	14
INT3	15

8.3.5Polling

In some applications, it is desirable to poll the Interrupt Control Unit. The CPU polls the Interrupt Control Unit for any pending interrupts, and software can service interrupts whenever it is con- venient. The Poll and Poll Status registers support polling.

Software reads the Poll register to get the type of the highest priority pending interrupt, then calls the corresponding interrupt handler. Reading the Poll register also acknowledges the interrupt. This clears the Interrupt Request bit and sets the In-Service bit for the interrupt. The Poll Status register has the same format as the Poll register, but reading the Poll Status register does not ac- knowledge the interrupt.

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