March 2, 2012

Synchronous Interrupts – Examples

Synchronous Interrupts – Examples

Software interrupts on the contrary are not generated from outside the processor. They just provide an extended far call mechanism.
As we have discussed that the real interrupts are hardware interrupts so all the outside interrupts which are not because of hardware, those are software interrupts and we call them synchronous interrupts.

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