Central Processor Unit (CPU)
Technical Data MC68HC908AZ60A — Rev 2.0
134 Central Processor Unit (CPU) MOTOROLA
H — Half-carry flag
The CPU sets the half-carry flag when a carry occurs between
accumulator bits 3 and 4 during an ADD or ADC operation. The half-
carry flag is required for binary-coded decimal (BCD) arithmetic
operations. The DAA instruction uses the states of the H and C flags
to determine the appropriate correction factor.
1 = Carry between bits 3 and 4
0 = No carry between bits 3 and 4
I — Interrupt mask
When the interrupt mask is set, all maskable CPU interrupts are
disabled. CPU interrupts are enabled when the interrupt mask is
cleared. When a CPU interrupt occurs, the interrupt mask is set
automatically after the CPU registers are saved on the stack, but
before the interrupt vector is fetched.
1 = Interrupts disabled
0 = Interrupts enabled
NOTE: To maintain M6805 compatibility, the upper byte of the index register (H)
is not stacked automatically. If the interrupt service routine modifies H,
then the user must stack and unstack H using the PSHH and PULH
instructions.
After the I bit is cleared, the highest-priority interrupt request is
serviced first.
A return from interrupt (RTI) instruction pulls the CPU registers from the
stack and restores the interrupt mask from the stack. After any reset, the
interrupt mask is set and can only be cleared by the clear interrupt mask
software instruction (CLI).
