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interrupt-driven system

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interrupt-driven system [′int·ə‚rəpt ‚driv·ən ‚sis·təm]
(computer science)
An operating system in which the interrupt system is the mechanism for reporting all changes in the states of hardware and software resources, and such changes are the events that induce new assignments of these resorces to meet work-load demands.


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The host can read all registers and accommodate both polled and interrupt-driven systems.
The W25Q16 is also the first Serial Flash memory to offer erase-suspend/-resume capability, commonly found in parallel Flash memories and necessary for interrupt-driven systems that must temporally halt an erase operation to read from Flash memory.
Such immediate feedback is made possible through the use of Axis' event-based, interrupt-driven system.
 
 
 
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