Interrupt Handling
The on-board CPU is able to handle 7 different prioritised interrupt request levels.
Interrupt priority levels are numbered from one to seven, level seven being the highest
priority. The status register contains a three bit mask which indicates the current priority
of the processor. The interrupt daisy-chain of the VMEbus allows an unlimited number
of peripheral devices to interrupt the CPU.
Interrupt requests arriving at the processor do not force immediate exception processing
as they are only detected between instruction executions. If the priority of the incoming
interrupt request is lower than or equal to the current processor priority, execution
continues with the next instruction; interrupt exception processing is not carried out and
the incoming request is ignored.
If the priority of the incoming interrupt is greater than the current processor priority, the
exception processing sequence is started.
On-board Interrupt Sources
PME68-1B boards contain six possible on-board interrupt sources; the three serial I/O
Controllers (ACIAs), the ABORT switch, the Parallel Interface and the Real Time
Clock.
Table 6 lists these devices, their interrupt level and the default settings of the auto-
interrupt vectors (if required).
Table 6 On-board Interrupts
Interrupt
Auto-interrupt
Default
Device
Level
Vectoring
Vector
Address
Note
ABORT Switch
7
YES
# 31
$00007C
RTC/PIT PC3
6
(a)
YES
# 30
$000078
PIT 68230
5
YES
# 29
$000074
ACIA Terminal
4
YES
# 28
$000070
ACIA Remote
3
YES
# 27
$00006C
ACIA Host
2
YES
# 26
$000068
Notes:
(a)
These two Interrupt Request Signals are tied together.
The RTC and PIT PC3 interrupt are tied together on auto-interrupt vector # 30; this
eases software control of the interrupt scheme. The RTC contains an Interrupt Status
Register which indicates if it is the interrupt source.
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