Datasheet

Chapter 5 Resets, Interrupts, and General System Control
MC9S08SG32 Data Sheet, Rev. 8
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other than the most experienced programmers because it can lead to subtle program errors that are difficult
to debug.
The interrupt service routine ends with a return-from-interrupt (RTI) instruction which restores the CCR,
A, X, and PC registers to their pre-interrupt values by reading the previously saved information from the
stack.
NOTE
For compatibility with M68HC08 devices, the H register is not
automatically saved and restored. It is good programming practice to push
H onto the stack at the start of the interrupt service routine (ISR) and restore
it immediately before the RTI that is used to return from the ISR.
If more than one interrupt is pending when the I bit is cleared, the highest priority source is serviced first
(see Table 5-2).
5.5.1 Interrupt Stack Frame
Figure 5-1 shows the contents and organization of a stack frame. Before the interrupt, the stack pointer
(SP) points at the next available byte location on the stack. The current values of CPU registers are stored
on the stack starting with the low-order byte of the program counter (PCL) and ending with the CCR. After
stacking, the SP points at the next available location on the stack which is the address that is one less than
the address where the CCR was saved. The PC value that is stacked is the address of the instruction in the
main program that would have executed next if the interrupt had not occurred.
Figure 5-1. Interrupt Stack Frame
When an RTI instruction is executed, these values are recovered from the stack in reverse order. As part of
the RTI sequence, the CPU fills the instruction pipeline by reading three bytes of program information,
starting from the PC address recovered from the stack.
CONDITION CODE REGISTER
ACCUMULATOR
INDEX REGISTER (LOW BYTE X)
PROGRAM COUNTER HIGH
* High byte (H) of index register is not automatically stacked.
*
PROGRAM COUNTER LOW
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UNSTACKING
ORDER
STACKING
ORDER
5
4
3
2
1
1
2
3
4
5
TOWARD LOWER ADDRESSES
TOWARD HIGHER ADDRESSES
SP BEFORE
SP AFTER
INTERRUPT STACKING
THE INTERRUPT