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Watchdog Reset
Interrupt Handling
AT90S2313
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When the Watchdog times out, it will generate a short reset pulse of one XTAL cycle
duration. On the falling edge of this pulse, the delay timer starts counting the Time-out
period t
. Refer to page 38 for details on operation of the Watchdog.
TOUT
Figure 27. Watchdog Reset during Operation
The AT90S2313 has two 8-bit Interrupt Mask control registers: the GIMSK (General
Interrupt Mask register) and the TIMSK (Timer/Counter Interrupt Mask register).
When an interrupt occurs, the Global Interrupt Enable I-bit is cleared (zero) and all inter-
rupts are disabled. The user software can set (one) the I-bit to enable interrupts. The I-
bit is set (one) when a Return from Interrupt instruction (RETI) is executed.
For interrupts triggered by events that can remain static (e.g., the Output Compare
Register1 matching the value of Timer/Counter1), the interrupt flag is set when the event
occurs. If the interrupt flag is cleared and the interrupt condition persists, the flag will not
be set until the event occurs the next time.
When the Program Counter is vectored to the actual interrupt vector in order to execute
the interrupt handling routine, hardware clears the corresponding flag that generated the
interrupt. Some of the interrupt flags can also be cleared by writing a logical "1" to the
flag bit position(s) to be cleared.
If an interrupt condition occurs when the corresponding interrupt enable bit is cleared
(zero), the interrupt flag will be set and remembered until the interrupt is enabled, or the
flag is cleared by software.
If one or more interrupt conditions occur when the global interrupt enable bit is cleared
(zero), the corresponding interrupt flag(s) will be set and remembered until the global
interrupt enable bit is set (one), and will be executed by order of priority.
Note that external level interrupt does not have a flag, and will only be remembered for
as long as the interrupt condition is active.
Note that the Status Register is not automatically stored when entering an interrupt rou-
tine and restored when returning from an interrupt routine. This must be handled by
software.
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