12.5 Operation
The PIR registers record individual interrupts via interrupt flag bits. Interrupt flag bits will be set, regardless of the status of the GIE, PEIE and individual interrupt enable bits.
- Current prefetched instruction is flushed
- GIE bit is cleared
- Current Program Counter (PC) is pushed onto the stack
- Critical registers are automatically saved to the shadow registers (see the “Automatic Context Saving” section)
- PC is loaded with the interrupt vector 0004h
The firmware within the Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) may determine the source of the interrupt by polling the interrupt flag bits. The interrupt flag bits must be cleared before exiting the ISR to avoid repeated interrupts. Because the GIE bit is cleared, any interrupt that occurs while executing the ISR will be recorded through its interrupt flag, but will not cause the processor to redirect to the interrupt vector.
The RETFIE
instruction exits the ISR by popping the previous address
from the stack, restoring the saved context from the shadow registers and setting the
GIE bit.
- Individual interrupt flag bits are set, regardless of the state of any other enable bits.
- All interrupts will be ignored while the GIE bit is cleared. Any interrupt occurring while the GIE bit is clear will be serviced when the GIE bit is set again.