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7 reset and interrupt handling – Rainbow Electronics ATtiny10 User Manual

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8127B–AVR–08/09

ATtiny4/5/9/10

Figure 4-4.

The Parallel Instruction Fetches and Instruction Executions

Figure 4-4

shows the parallel instruction fetches and instruction executions enabled by the Har-

vard architecture and the fast access Register File concept. This is the basic pipelining concept
to obtain up to 1 MIPS per MHz with the corresponding unique results for functions per cost,
functions per clocks, and functions per power-unit.

Figure 4-5

shows the internal timing concept for the Register File. In a single clock cycle an ALU

operation using two register operands is executed, and the result is stored back to the destina-
tion register.

Figure 4-5.

Single Cycle ALU Operation

4.7

Reset and Interrupt Handling

The AVR provides several different interrupt sources. These interrupts and the separate Reset
Vector each have a separate Program Vector in the program memory space. All interrupts are
assigned individual enable bits which must be written logic one together with the Global Interrupt
Enable bit in the Status Register in order to enable the interrupt.

The lowest addresses in the program memory space are by default defined as the Reset and
Interrupt Vectors. The complete list of vectors is shown in

“Interrupts” on page 35

. The list also

determines the priority levels of the different interrupts. The lower the address the higher is the
priority level. RESET has the highest priority, and next is INT0 – the External Interrupt Request
0.

When an interrupt occurs, the Global Interrupt Enable I-bit is cleared and all interrupts are dis-
abled. The user software can write logic one to the I-bit to enable nested interrupts. All enabled

clk

1st Instruction Fetch

1st Instruction Execute

2nd Instruction Fetch

2nd Instruction Execute

3rd Instruction Fetch

3rd Instruction Execute

4th Instruction Fetch

T1

T2

T3

T4

CPU

Total Execution Time

Register Operands Fetch

ALU Operation Execute

Result Write Back

T1

T2

T3

T4

clk

CPU