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At the beginning of each FDE cycle, each bit in the interrupt register is checked in turn. This register is a special register in the CPU that takes note of when an interrupt has happened. Each bit in the register represents a different kind of interrupt. If a bit has been set, that would indicate an interrupt has happened! The CPU has to decide whether to service the interrupt immediately, or leave it till later.

For example, if 2 interrupts have happened at the same time, one of them has to wait! Which one? That depends upon which one is the least important! Some interrupts are more important than others and so need to be done before others. What about the situation where one interrupt is currently being serviced by the CPU and another happens? Again, it depends on how important the new interrupt is compared to the one already being done. If it is more important, then the cpu will want to service it immediately.

When the CPU decides to service an interrupt, it stops processing the current job, 'pushing' the contents of its registers onto the stack. This would include, for example, the contents of the Program Counter and the accumulator. The CPU is now free to work on another piece of software but can return to what it was doing after the interrupt has been serviced because it has saved where it was. It then transfers control to the interrupt handling software for that type of interrupt using the vectored interrupt mechanism. When it has finished servicing the interrupt, the contents of the stack are 'popped' back into the appropriate registers and the CPU continues from where it left off before the interrupt happened.

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