+retroclouds Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Hi, just wondering. Is there a possibility to trigger a load interrupt via software on the TIPI ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 No LOAD line in the flex cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I don't know much about software triggered interrupts or XOPs. I have and do spend time striving to get full and absolute cooperation from the -LOAD interrupt. I'm assuming you mean a TIPI sidecar, not PEB prototype. I don't think console port 13 is routed physically on the TIPI PCB. Perhaps it could be jumpered to another pin on the TIPI connector, such as -MBE or SBE(needs inversion). But that would be more like triggering the interrupt from the TI... probably not useful. I'm using a 9901 output port to gate(NAND) the NMI. Perhaps also irrelevant... Sounds like a JM42 question to me!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Can an interrupt service routine be written such that it checks for something in one of the TIPI registers or does a poll with some timed frequency, and if the trigger exists, the ISR then does its thing? One could use a counter that actually does the polling with whatever frequency was required. I do not know enough about the TIPI to know limitations, yet. I'm not sure what would happen if you have a program running using the TIPI, then an ISR does a poll as well, etc. Beery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Seems to me the closest you could get to this is an interrupt generated by the TIPI, in the same manner as the RS232 and SCSI cards. You'd have to look at the TIPI page to determine if the interrupt is implemented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 FMI is the load interrupt software triggerable ? I have been under the impression it is a hardware only event that screams off to it's vector once it's triggered. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 The idea is to have a software timer on PI side that periodically triggers the load interrupt. That way preemption could be implemented with a higher rate as the 60 times a second for a VDP interrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 No LOAD line in the flex cable. I read about that. What was TI thinking not to carry the LOAD line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 The TIPI does not connect to any interrupt lines. There was no need. -M@ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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