Practice Interrupts And Processor Management (27.1) - Interrupts and Processor Management

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Question 1.
What is an interrupt?
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Think of devices communicating with the CPU.
Question 2.
What does an ISR do?
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Connect the ISR with interrupts.
3Question 3.
What is the role of an interrupt in CPU processing?
- To stop processing immediately
- To signal attention from a device
- To reset the CPU
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Think about the communication between devices and the CPU.
4Question 4.
True or False: A CPU can process multiple interrupts at the same time.
- True
- False
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Consider how priority impacts processing.
Question 5.
How would the absence of a properly configured interrupt controller affect a system with multiple devices? Outline the advantages brought by the use of such a controller.
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Consider comparing systems with and without this controller.
Question 6.
Design a fault-tolerant interrupt management system that can handle overflow situations when too many interrupts occur simultaneously.
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Think about using queues and scheduling algorithms.

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