
PIC16F870/871
DS30569B-page 98
2003 Microchip Technology Inc.
11.11 Context Saving During Interrupts
During an interrupt, only the return PC value is saved
on the stack. Typically, users may wish to save key reg-
isters during an interrupt, (i.e., W register and STATUS
register). This will have to be implemented in software.
For the PIC16F870/871 devices, the register W_TEMP
must be defined in both banks 0 and 1 and must be
defined at the same offset from the bank base address
(i.e., If W_TEMP is defined at 0x20 in bank 0, it must
also be defined at 0xA0 in bank 1). The registers,
PCLATH_TEMP and STATUS_TEMP, are only defined
in bank 0.
Since the upper 16 bytes of each bank are common in
the PIC16F870/871 devices, temporary holding regis-
ters W_TEMP, STATUS_TEMP, and PCLATH_TEMP
should be placed in here. These 16 locations don’t
require banking and therefore, make it easier for con-
text save and restore. The same code shown in
EXAMPLE 11-1:
SAVING STATUS, W, AND PCLATH REGISTERS IN RAM
MOVWF
W_TEMP
;Copy W to TEMP register
SWAPF
STATUS,W
;Swap status to be saved into W
CLRF
STATUS
;bank 0, regardless of current bank, Clears IRP,RP1,RP0
MOVWF
STATUS_TEMP
;Save status to bank zero STATUS_TEMP register
MOVF
PCLATH, W
;Only required if using pages 1, 2 and/or 3
MOVWF
PCLATH_TEMP
;Save PCLATH into W
CLRF
PCLATH
;Page zero, regardless of current page
:
:(ISR)
;(Insert user code here)
:
MOVF
PCLATH_TEMP, W
;Restore PCLATH
MOVWF
PCLATH
;Move W into PCLATH
SWAPF
STATUS_TEMP,W
;Swap STATUS_TEMP register into W
;(sets bank to original state)
MOVWF
STATUS
;Move W into STATUS register
SWAPF
W_TEMP,F
;Swap W_TEMP
SWAPF
W_TEMP,W
;Swap W_TEMP into W