- Interrupt transfers control to the interrupt service routine generally, through the interrupt vector, which contains the addresses of all the service routines.
- Interrupt architecture must save the address of the interrupted instruction.
- Incoming interrupt are disabled while another interrupt is being processed to prevent a lost interrupt.
- A Trap is a software-generated interrupt caused either by an error or a user request.
- An operating system is interrupt driven.
Friday 11 November 2011
Common Functions of Interrupts
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