Monday, January 18, 2010

Hardware Interrupt

..When an interrupt is generated by hardware

.It sends a signal request to the processor

.The processor suspends the current tasks it is executing

.Then the control is transferred to the interrupt routine

.Then the interrupt routine performs some I/O operations depending on which generated by the hardware

.Finally the control is transferred back to the previous executing task at the point where it was suspended.

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