Datasheet

Exception Control
MC68HC908GR16 Data Sheet, Rev. 5.0
Freescale Semiconductor 185
15.5.1 Interrupts
At the beginning of an interrupt, the CPU saves the CPU register contents on the stack and sets the
interrupt mask (I bit) to prevent additional interrupts. At the end of an interrupt, the RTI instruction recovers
the CPU register contents from the stack so that normal processing can resume. Figure 15-9 shows
interrupt entry timing. Figure 15-10 shows interrupt recovery timing.
Interrupts are latched, and arbitration is performed in the SIM at the start of interrupt processing. The
arbitration result is a constant that the CPU uses to determine which vector to fetch. Once an interrupt is
latched by the SIM, no other interrupt can take precedence, regardless of priority, until the latched
interrupt is serviced (or the I bit is cleared). See Figure 15-11.
Figure 15-9
. Interrupt Entry Timing
Figure 15-10. Interrupt Recovery Timing
MODULE
IDB
R/W
INTERRUPT
DUMMY
SP SP – 1 SP – 2 SP – 3 SP – 4 VECT H VECT L START ADDR
IAB
DUMMY PC – 1[7:0] PC – 1[15:8] X A CCR V DATA H V DATA L OPCODE
I BIT
IDB
R/W
MODULE INTERRUPT
SP – 4 SP – 3 SP – 2 SP – 1 SP PC PC + 1
IAB
CCR A X PC – 1 [7:0] PC – 1 [15:8] OPCODE OPERAND
I BIT