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Interrupt vectors

2004-11-03 by robert.wood@apostrophe.co.uk

Hi folks,

I'm just trying to make sure I understand the way the ARM devices
service interrupts. It looks like the peripherals have an interrupt
number assigned to them and they are assigned to one of sixteen
interrupt vectors; therefore, if an peripheral is assigned to, say,
vector 3, when the interrupt occurs the program will jump to the
address stored in VICVectAddr3. 

All reasonably easy to understand. What it also seems to indicate
though is that each peripheral only has one interrupt number you can
assign to each vector. So, for example, if a UART flags up an
interrupt, you won't know, until you go to the interrupt vector and
check the flags, whether it's a transmit, receive or error interrupt.
Is that correct? Seems a bit primitive if so! 

Cheers,

Rob

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