National Instruments HPC467064 manual Interrupt Arbitration, Interrupt Processing, Timer Overview

HPC167064 Interrupts (Continued)

TABLE II. Interrupts

Vector		Interrupt Source	Arbitration
Address			Ranking
FFFF:FFFE	RESET		0
FFFD:FFFC	Nonmaskable external on rising edge of I1 pin		1
FFFB:FFFA	External interrupt on I2 pin		2
FFF9:FFF8	External interrupt on I3 pin		3
FFF7:FFF6	External interrupt on I4 pin		4
FFF5:FFF4	Overflow on internal timers		5
FFF3:FFF2	Internal on the UART transmit/receive complete or external on EXUI		6
FFF1:FFF0	External interrupt on EI pin		7

Interrupt Arbitration

The HPC167064 contains arbitration logic to determine which interrupt will be serviced first if two or more interrupts occur simultaneously. The arbitration ranking is given in Ta- ble II. The interrupt on RESET has the highest rank and is serviced first.

Interrupt Processing

Interrupts are serviced after the current instruction is com- pleted except for the RESET, which is serviced immediately. RESET and EXUI are level-LOW-sensitive interrupts and EI is programmable for edge-(RISING or FALLING) or level- (HIGH or LOW) sensitivity. All other interrupts are edge-sen- sitive. NMI is positive-edge sensitive. The external interrupts on I2, I3 and I4 can be software selected to be rising or falling edge. External interrupt (EXUI) is shared with UART interrupt. This interrupt is level-low sensitive. To select this interrupt disable the ERI and ETI UART interrupt bits in the ENUI register. To select the UART interrupt leave this pin floating or tie it high.

Interrupt Control Registers

The HPC167064 allows the various interrupt sources and conditions to be programmed. This is done through the vari- ous control registers. A brief description of the different con- trol registers is given below.

INTERRUPT ENABLE REGISTER (ENIR)

RESET and the External Interrupt on I1 are non-maskable interrupts. The other interrupts can be individually enabled or disabled. Additionally, a Global Interrupt Enable Bit in the ENIR Register allows the Maskable interrupts to be collec- tively enabled or disabled. Thus, in order for a particular interrupt to request service, both the individual enable bit and the Global Interrupt bit (GIE) have to be set.

INTERRUPT PENDING REGISTER (IRPD)

The IRPD register contains a bit allocated for each interrupt vector. The occurrence of specified interrupt trigger condi- tions causes the appropriate bit to be set. There is no indi- cation of the order in which the interrupts have been re- ceived. The bits are set independently of the fact that the interrupts may be disabled. IRPD is a Read/Write register. The bits corresponding to the maskable, external interrupts are normally cleared by the HPC167064 after servicing the interrupts.

For the interrupts from the on-board peripherals, the user has the responsibility of resetting the interrupt pending flags through software.

The NMI bit is read only and I2, I3, and I4 are designed as to only allow a zero to be written to the pending bit (writing a one has no affect). A LOAD IMMEDIATE instruction is to be the only instruction used to clear a bit or bits in the IRPD register. This allows a mask to be used, thus ensuring that the other pending bits are not affected.

INTERRUPT CONDITION REGISTER (IRCD)

Three bits of the register select the input polarity of the external interrupt on I2, I3, and I4.

Servicing the Interrupts

The Interrupt, once acknowledged, pushes the program counter (PC) onto the stack thus incrementing the stack pointer (SP) twice. The Global Interrupt Enable bit (GIE) is copied into the CGIE bit of the PSW register; it is then reset, thus disabling further interrupts. The program counter is loaded with the contents of the memory at the vector ad- dress and the processor resumes operation at this point. At the end of the interrupt service routine, the user does a RETI instruction to pop the stack and re-enable interrupts if the CGIE bit is set, or RET to just pop the stack if the CGIE bit is clear, and then returns to the main program. The GIE bit can be set in the interrupt service routine to nest inter- rupts if desired. Figure 18 shows the Interrupt Enable Logic.

RESET

The RESET input initializes the processor and sets Ports A and B in the TRI-STATE condition and Port P in the LOW state. RESET is an active-low Schmitt trigger input. The processor vectors to FFFF:FFFE and resumes operation at the address contained at that memory location (which must correspond to an on board location). The Reset vector ad- dress must be between C000 and FFFF when emulating the HPC16064 and between E000 and FFFF when emulating the HPC16003.

Timer Overview

The HPC167064 contains a powerful set of flexible timers enabling the HPC167064 to perform extensive timer func- tions not usually associated with microcontrollers. The HPC167064 contains nine 16-bit timers. Timer T0 is a free-running timer, counting up at a fixed CKI/16

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