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. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...

Interruptions aren’t just a staple of our daily lives. They’re also crucial for making computer systems work as well as they do, as they allow for a system to immediately respond to an event. While on ...

A trapped interrupt in a PC. The pointer for a particular interrupt in the interrupt vector table has been modified to jump to a new routine to service that interrupt. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...

LONDON — MIPS Technologies Inc. will present a series of enhancements to the basic MIPS32/MIPS64 instruction set architecture at this week's Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif. Changes in such ...

What’s the biggest difference between writing code for your big computer and a microcontroller? OK, the memory and limited resources, sure. But we were thinking more about the need to directly ...