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What are interrupts and explain the factors that contribute to interrupt response in the system.
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Mumbai University > Electronics Engineering > Sem 7 > Embedded System Design

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written 7.3 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 65k

Interrupts:

  1. An interrupt is a hardware mechanism used to inform the CPU that an asynchronous event has occurred.
  2. When an interrupt is recognized, the CPU saves part (or all) of its context (i.e., registers) and jumps to a special subroutine, called an interrupt service routine (ISR).

  3. The ISR processes the …

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