ST90158 - INTERRUPTS
with the highest position in the chain, as shown in
Figure 9
Table 9. Daisy Chain Priority
The IAM control bit in the CICR Register selects
Concurrent Arbitration mode or Nested Arbitration
Mode.
4.5.1 Concurrent Mode
Highest Position
INTA0
INTA1
INTB0
INTB1
INTC0
INTC1
INTD0
INTD1
TIMER0
SCI0
INT0/WDT
INT1
INT2/SPI
INT3
INT4/STIM
INT5
INT6/RCCU
INT7
This mode is selected when the IAM bit is cleared
(reset condition). The arbitration phase, performed
during every instruction, selects the request with
the highest priority level. The CPL value is not
modified in this mode.
Start of Interrupt Routine
The interrupt cycle performs the following steps:
– All maskable interrupt requests are disabled by
clearing CICR.IEN.
SCI1
A/D
TIMER3
TIMER1
– The PC low byte is pushed onto system stack.
– The PC high byte is pushed onto system stack.
Lowest Position
– If ENCSR is set, CSR is pushed onto system
stack.
4.4.4 Dynamic Priority Level Modification
– The Flag register is pushed onto system stack.
The main program and routines can be specifically
prioritized. Since the CPL is represented by 3 bits
in a read/write register, it is possible to modify dy-
namically the current priority value during program
execution. This means that a critical section can
have a higher priority with respect to other inter-
rupt requests. Furthermore it is possible to priori-
tize even the Main Program execution by modify-
ing the CPL during its execution. See Figure 20
– The PC is loaded with the 16-bit vector stored in
the Vector Table, pointed to by the IVR.
– If ENCSR is set, CSR is loaded with ISR con-
tents; otherwise ISR is used in place of CSR until
iretinstruction.
End of Interrupt Routine
The Interrupt Service Routine must be ended with
the iret instruction. The iret instruction exe-
cutes the following operations:
Figure 20. Example of Dynamic priority
level modification in Nested Mode
– The Flag register is popped from system stack.
INTERRUPT 6 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 6
Priority Level
– If ENCSR is set, CSR is popped from system
stack.
CPL is set to 7
by MAIN program
4
– The PC high byte is popped from system stack.
– The PC low byte is popped from system stack.
ei
INT6
5
6
7
– All unmasked Interrupts are enabled by setting
the CICR.IEN bit.
MAIN
CPL is set to 5
– If ENCSR is reset, CSR is used instead of ISR.
CPL6 > CPL5:
INT6 pending
INT 6
Normal program execution thus resumes at the in-
terrupted instruction. All pending interrupts remain
pending until the next ei instruction (even if it is
executed during the interrupt service routine).
CPL=6
MAIN
CPL=7
Note: In Concurrent mode, the source priority level
is only useful during the arbitration phase, where it
is compared with all other priority levels and with
the CPL. No trace is kept of its value during the
ISR. If other requests are issued during the inter-
rupt service routine, once the global CICR.IEN is
re-enabled, they will be acknowledged regardless
of the interrupt service routine’s priority. This may
cause undesirable interrupt response sequences.
4.5 ARBITRATION MODES
The ST9 provides two interrupt arbitration modes:
Concurrent mode and Nested mode. Concurrent
mode is the standard interrupt arbitration mode.
Nested mode improves the effective interrupt re-
sponse time when service routine nesting is re-
quired, depending on the request priority levels.
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