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interrupt vector

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interrupt vector

In the PC, one of 256 pointers that reside in the first 1KB of memory. Each vector points to a routine in the BIOS or elsewhere in memory, which handles the interrupt.


interrupt vector [′int·ə‚rəpt ‚vek·tər]
(computer science)
A list comprising the locations of various interrupt handlers.


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Other support peripherals include an I2C interface, three 16-bit general purpose timers/counters with three timer capture inputs, a watchdog timer, and 49 interrupts that share 16 interrupt vectors.
0 include the Visual System Builder to manage configuration settings, RtWinAPI support for source portability to RTX and Windows CE, improved IDE disk performance, shared interrupts for devices that use a common interrupt vector, and support for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL in applications and DLLs.
MPLAB-C18 provides specific support for microcontroller environments, including I/O ports (read only, write only and read/write), interrupt vectors, allocation of fixed variables and functions in memory, and PICmicro banked and shared memory areas.
 
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