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ST9 USER GUIDE

3.4.1 Interrupt Vectors

Unlike most microcontrollers, the ST9 uses a two-level indirect interrupt vector system. This

means that each peripheral able to generate interrupt requests has a vector register that

points to a location in program memory (the vector array). This location contains the address

of the start of the interrupt service routine. This allows each peripheral to generate several dif-

ferent interrupt requests: the peripheral vector register points to an array of pointers to rou-

tines, each routine responding to a different interrupt cause. All pointers to interrupt pro-

cessing routines, except the Reset, must be located in the first 256 bytes of the Interrupt Ser-

vice Routine (ISR) segment (one of the 64 code segments). The trap for divide by zero with

the associated far call to the Interrupt Service Routine has to be repeated in all memory seg-

ments containing programs that perform division. Code may also reside in this 256-byte

space, provided that it does not overlap with the interrupt vectors.

Figure 15 shows the complete mechanism of the 22-bit address construction from the interrupt

which provides the Interrupt Vector Register value to the return from interrupt.

For each peripheral, the layout of the vector array is specified in the section related to its own

Interrupt Vector Register.

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