Rainbow Electronics ATtiny28L - Manual (Page 18)

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• Bit 1 – EXTRF: External Reset Flag
This bit is set if an external reset occurs. The bit is cleared by a Power-on Reset, or by
writing a logical “0” to the flag.
• Bit 0 – PORF: Power-on Reset Flag
This bit is set if a Power-on Reset occurs. The bit is cleared by writing a logical “0” to the
flag.
To make use of the reset flags to identify a reset condition, the user should read and
then clear the flag bits in MCUCS as early as possible in the program. If the register is
cleared before another reset occurs, the source of the reset can be found by examining
the reset flags.
Interrupt Handling The ATtiny28 has one 8-bit Interrupt Control Register (ICR).
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 nested interrupts.
The I-bit is set (one) when a Return from Interrupt instruction (RETI) is executed.
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.
Interrupt Response Time The interrupt execution response for all the enabled AVR interrupts is four clock cycles
minimum. After four clock cycles the program vector address for the actual interrupt
handling routine is executed. During this 4-clock-cycle period, the program counter (10
bits) is pushed onto the stack. The vector is normally a relative jump to the interrupt rou-
tine, and this jump takes two clock cycles. If an interrupt occurs during execution of a
multi-cycle instruction, this instruction is completed before the interrupt is served. If an
interrupt occurs when the MCU is in sleep mode, the interrupt execution response time
is increased by four clock cycles.
A return from an interrupt handling routine takes four clock cycles. During these four
clock cycles, the program counter (10 bits) is popped back from the stack, and the I-flag
in SREG is set. When AVR exits from an interrupt, it will always return to the main pro-
gram and execute one more instruction before any pending interrupt is served.