Overview
5-3
Interrupts
SPRU733
Table 5
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1. Interrupt Priorities
Priority
Interrupt Name
Interrupt Type
Highest
Reset
Reset
NMI
Nonmaskable
INT4
Maskable
INT5
Maskable
INT6
Maskable
INT7
Maskable
INT8
Maskable
INT9
Maskable
INT10
Maskable
INT11
Maskable
INT12
Maskable
INT13
Maskable
INT14
Maskable
Lowest
INT15
Maskable
5.1.1.1 Reset (RESET)
Reset is the highest priority interrupt and is used to halt the CPU and return
it to a known state. The reset interrupt is unique in a number of ways:
RESET is an active-low signal. All other interrupts are active-high signals.
RESET must be held low for 10 clock cycles before it goes high again to
reinitialize the CPU properly.
The instruction execution in progress is aborted and all registers are
returned to their default states.
The reset interrupt service fetch packet must be located at address 0.
RESET is not affected by branches.