Interrupts are the name of the game for more functional microcontroller firmware. [Rajendra] just posted a tutorial covering all of the interrupt types for the PIC 16F688 microcontroller. He gives an ...

[Tim’s] new version of Micronucleus, Micronucleus 2.0, improves upon V-USB by removing the need for interrupts. The original Micronucleus was a very small implementation of V-USB that took up only 2KB ...

In the interrupt method, the device that needs the microcontroller’s service notifies it by sending an interrupt signal. The microcontroller stops whatever task it is doing whenever it receives an ...

Traditionally programmers and organizations have had an irrational fear of using interrupts. One might think that statement is facetious but on more than one occasion in the last year the author has ...

When a WFI instruction is executed or when the processor enters sleep mode using the Sleep-On-Exit feature, the processor stops instruction execution and wakes up when an (higher priority) interrupt ...