Topic: Software Initiate Interrupt
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How is a hardware interrupt initiated?
A hardware interrupt is initiated by a hardware device sending an IRQ to the CPU. Note: There are comments associated with this question. See the discussion page to add to the conversation. Read More »
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What is an interrupt in computer software?
If you are eating your lunch and the phone rings, you stop eating to answer the phone. Your lunch has been interrupted. On a computer it is about the same. The computer is busy doing a task (recalculating a spread sheet) and there is someth... Read More »
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What is software interrupt with examples?
Interrupt generated by executing an instruction is called software interrupt. It's also called 'trap'. Software interrupts are generally used to make system calls i.e. to request operating system to perform an I/O operation or to run a new ... Read More »
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A hardware interrupt on an 8085 is generated by something in hardware, such as a pulse on RST 6.5. This generates a CALL with FLAGS sequence that interrupts the instruction stream to go process the interrupt. A software interrupt has the sa... Read More »
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I'm not too sure what exactly you are referring to. But a hardware interrupt is probably an error with something physical for example, a broken harddrive or faulty motherboard. and a software interrupt would be a problem with a program or g... Read More »
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The TRAP interrupt can not be masked by software, unless there is hardware in place to allow that, perhaps by anding an output bit with the TRAP request line. Read More »
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It is code which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupts can range from you typing ctrl-c, to the tick of your computer's clock, to reaching the end of a file, to opening a port, to the click of a mouse, etc, etc. Any interrupt sen... Read More »
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A SWI instruction (in assembly language) looks like this: SWI &02 or SWI "OS_Write0" Both these instructions are in fact the same, and would therefore assemble to the same instruction. The only difference is that the second instruction uses... Read More »
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