Interrupts of 8051 microcontroller.newpp
- 2. Introduction • A single microcontroller can serve several devices by two ways Interrupts Polling • In Interrupts, Whenever any device needs its service, the device notifies the microcontroller by sending it an interrupt signal • Upon receiving an interrupt signal, the microcontroller interrupts whatever it is doing and serves the device • In Polling, The microcontroller continuously monitors the status of all devices in Round-robin manner. • When the conditions are for a given device are met, it performs the service. • After that, it moves on to monitor the next device until every one is serviced
- 3. What is an Interrupt? • An interrupt is an external or internal event that interrupts the microcontroller to inform it that a device needs its service • The program which is associated with the interrupt is called the Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) or interrupt handler
- 4. Polling Vs Interrupts Polling Interrupt In Polling, The microcontroller continuously monitors the status of all devices in Round-robin manner. When the conditions are for a given device are met, it performs the service. After that, it moves on to monitor the next device until every one is serviced In Interrupts, Whenever any device needs its service, the device notifies the microcontroller by sending it an interrupt signal Upon receiving an interrupt signal, the microcontroller interrupts whatever it is doing and serves the device The polling method is not efficient, since it wastes much of the microcontroller’s time by polling devices that do not need service Interrupts serve only those devices which need service and hence are efficient It is not possible to assign priority since it checks all devices ina round-robin fashion Each devices can get the attention of the microcontroller based on the assigned priority Ignoring a device request is not possible microcontroller can also ignore (mask) a device request for service
- 5. Maskable vs Non-Maskable Interrupts Maskable Interrupts • A maskable interrupt is one that programmaer can ignore by setting (or clearing) a bit in an interrupt control register. • Typically, the microcontroller might allow multiple interrupt sources, but application requires only few of them. The programmer can mask off the unused interrupts Non Maskable Interrupts • Non-maskable interrupts are those interrupts which do not get gated by the interrupt control register -- they ALWAYS interrupt, no matter what state the microcontroller is in. • Typically these are used for CRITICIAL or FATAL conditions, or for system reset functions.
- 6. Interrupt Service Routine • For every interrupt, there must be an interrupt service routine (ISR), or interrupt handler • When an interrupt is invoked, the microcontroller runs the interrupt service routine • For every interrupt, there is a fixed location in memory that holds the address of its ISR • The group of memory locations set aside to hold the addresses of ISRs is called interrupt vector table
- 7. Steps in executing an interrupt Upon activation of an interrupt, the microcontroller goes through the following steps 1. It finishes the instruction it is executing and saves the address of the next instruction (PC) on the stack 2. It also saves the current status of all the interrupts internally (i.e: not on the stack) 3. It jumps to a fixed location in memory, called the interrupt vector table, that holds the address of the ISR
- 8. Steps in executing an interrupt 4. The microcontroller gets the address of the ISR from the interrupt vector table and jumps to it It starts to execute the interrupt service subroutine until it reaches the last instruction of the subroutine which is RETI (return from interrupt) 5. Upon executing the RETI instruction, the microcontroller returns to the place where it was interrupted First, it gets the program counter (PC) address from the stack by popping the top two bytes of the stack into the PC Then it starts to execute from that address
- 9. Interrupts in 8051 There are SIX interrupts in 8051 • Reset – power-up reset • Two interrupts are set aside for the timers: one for timer 0 and one for timer 1 • Two interrupts are set aside for hardware external interrupts P3.2 and P3.3 are for the external hardware interrupts INT0 (or EX1), and INT1 (or EX2) • Serial communication has a single interrupt that belongs to both receive and transfer
- 10. Interrupt Vector Table of 8051
- 11. Enabling and Disabling of Interrupts • Upon reset, all interrupts are disabled (masked), meaning that none will be responded to by the microcontroller, even if they are activated • The interrupts must be enabled by software in order for the microcontroller to respond to them • There is a register called IE (interrupt enable) that is responsible for enabling (unmasking) and disabling (masking) the interrupts
- 12. IE Register (Interrupt Enable Register) • Bit D7 of the IE register (EA) must be set to high to allow the rest of register to take effect • The value of EA If EA = 1, interrupts are enabled and will be responded to if their corresponding bits in IE are high If EA = 0, no interrupt will be responded to, even if the associated bit in the IE register is high
- 13. Timer Interrupt • The timer flag (TF) is raised when the timer rolls over • In polling TF, we have to wait until the TF is raised • The problem with this method is that the microcontroller is tied down while waiting for TF to be raised, and can not do anything else • If the timer interrupt in the IE register is enabled, whenever the timer rolls over, TF is raised, and the microcontroller is interrupted in whatever it is doing, and jumps to the interrupt vector table to service the ISR. • Hence, using interrupts, the problem of tying down the microcontroller is solved. • In this way, the microcontroller can do other tasks until it is notified that the timer has rolled over
- 14. External Interrupts in 8051 • The 8051 has two external hardware interrupts • Pin 12 (P3.2) and pin 13 (P3.3) of the 8051, designated as INT0 and INT1, are used as external hardware interrupts • The interrupt vector table locations 0003H and 0013H are set aside for INT0 and INT1 • There are two activation levels for the external hardware interrupts Level trigged Edge trigged
- 15. External Interrupts in 8051
- 16. Level Triggered Interrupts • In the level-triggered mode, INT0 and INT1 pins are normally high • If a low-level signal is applied to them, it triggers the interrupt. Then the microcontroller stops whatever it is doing and jumps to the interrupt vector table to service that interrupt • The low-level signal at the INT pin must be removed before the execution of the last instruction of the ISR, RETI; otherwise, another interrupt will be generated • This is called a level-triggered interrupt and is the default mode upon reset of the 8051
- 17. Edge Triggered Interrupts • To make INT0 and INT1 edge-triggered interrupts, we must program the bits of the TCON register • The TCON register holds the IT0 and IT1 flag bits, that determine level- or edge-triggered mode of the hardware interrupt • IT0 and IT1 are also referred to as TCON.0 and TCON.2 since the TCON register is bit addressable
- 21. Serial Interrupts in 8051 • TI (transfer interrupt) is raised when the last bit of the framed data, the stop bit, is transferred, indicating that the SBUF register is ready to transfer the next byte • RI (received interrupt) is raised when the entire frame of data, including the stop bit, is received
- 22. Serial Interrupts in 8051 • In the 8051 there is only one interrupt set aside for serial communication This interrupt is used to both send and receive data If the interrupt bit in the IE register (IE.4)is enabled, when RI or TI is raised the 8051 gets interrupted and jumps to memory location 0023H to execute the ISR In that ISR we must examine the TI and RI flags to see which one caused the interrupt and respond accordingly
- 23. Interrupt Priority • When the 8051 is powered up, the priorities are assigned according to the following
- 24. Priority of Interrupts • We can alter the sequence of interrupt priority by assigning a higher priority to any one of the interrupts by programming a register called IP (interrupt priority) • To give a higher priority to any of the interrupts, we make the corresponding bit in the IP register high • When two or more interrupt bits in the IP register are set to high, they are serviced according to the default priority All the interrupts are latched and kept internally and till the interrupt is being serviced, all other interrupts would be ignored. Upon RETI, No low-priority interrupt can get the immediate attention of the CPU until the 8051 has finished servicing the high-priority interrupts
- 25. IP Register
- 26. Support for Interrupts in Embedded C • The 8051 compiler have extensive support for the interrupts • They assign a unique number to each of the 8051 interrupts