Architectural Design:Control Models - 4

(b) Interrupt-driven models:
• External interrupts are detected by an interrupt handler and passed to some other component for processing
• Exclusively used in real-time systems (fast response time)

Interrupt

vector

(memory location of handler)

Interrupts

Handler

1

Handler

2

Handler

3

Process

1

Process

2

Process

3

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