The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 7: Interrupts

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We only need a few more instructions to complete the basic ISA or Instruction Set Architecture for the Ember CPU. Rounding out those few remaining instruction types are interrupt handling instructions. Interrupts are a big topic, and while we can’t possibly cover every aspect of interrupts here, we can give a brief overview of the concept, and how it works at a high level for Ember.

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