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Chapter 4: Interrupts

Figure 4-3shows the same interrupt procedure but as a timing diagram. With the interrupt enabled, the INTERRUPT input is recognized at Step (2), the same clock cycle where the ADDRESS bus changes value. The address for the instruction ADD s0,s1 appears on the ADDRESS bus and is pushed onto the CALL/RETURN stack. Simultaneously, the interrupt is disabled and the ZERO and CARRY flags are preserved. The ADD s0, s1 instruction is preempted and does not yet execute. Instead, the PicoBlaze microcontroller performs a call to the interrupt vector at location 0x3FF.

An interrupt is undesirable in timing-critical procedures or when predictable timing is a must. Temporarily disable the INTERRUPT input using the DISABLE INTERRUPT instruction, as demonstrated in the critical_timing subroutine in Figure 4-2. Once the critical procedure completes, re-enable the INTERRUPT input with the ENABLE INTERRUPT instruction.

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