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ST90158 - INTERRUPTS

ARBITRATION MODES (Cont’d)

4.5.2 Nested Mode

The difference between Nested mode and Con-

current mode, lies in the modification of the Cur-

rent Priority Level (CPL) during interrupt process-

ing.

The arbitration phase is basically identical to Con-

current mode, however, once the request is ac-

knowledged, the CPL is saved in the Nested Inter-

rupt Control Register (NICR) by setting the NICR

bit corresponding to the CPL value (i.e. if the CPL

is 3, the bit 3 will be set).

The CPL is then loaded with the priority of the re-

quest just acknowledged; the next arbitration cycle

is thus performed with reference to the priority of

the interrupt service routine currently being exe-

cuted.

Start of Interrupt Routine

The interrupt cycle performs the following steps:

– All maskable interrupt requests are disabled by

clearing CICR.IEN.

– CPL is saved in the special NICR stack to hold

the priority level of the suspended routine.

– Priority level of the acknowledged routine is

stored in CPL, so that the next request priority

will be compared with the one of the routine cur-

rently being serviced.

– The PC low byte is pushed onto system stack.

– The PC high byte is pushed onto system stack.

– If ENCSR is set, CSR is pushed onto system

stack.

– The Flag register is pushed onto system stack.

– 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

iret instruction.

Figure 23. Simple Example of a Sequence of Interrupt Requests with:

- Nested mode

- IEN unchanged by the interrupt routines

Priority Level of

Interrupt Request

0

1

INT 0

CPL=0

INT0

CPL6 > CPL3:

INT6 pending

INTE RRUPT 0 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 0

INTE RRUPT 2 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 2

INTE RRUPT 3 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 3

INTE RRUPT 4 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 4

INTE RRUPT 5 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 5

INTE RRUPT 6 HAS PRIORITY LEVEL 6

2

INT 2

INT 2

CPL=2

INT6

CPL=2

3

INT2

4

INT3

INT4

5

INT 5

ei CPL=5

INT 3

CPL=3

INT2

CPL2 < CPL4:

Serviced next

INT 4

CPL=4

6

INT5

INT 6

CPL=6

7

MAIN

CPL is set to 7

MAIN

CPL=7

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