Sending data in AVR's USART Receive interrupt . Available or not ?

Sending data in AVR's USART Receiver interrupt . Available or not ?

Hi

I need my MC to consume low power and I prefer no to put my code in any permanent While Loop.
so I want to write all of my code with Interrupts.

Now I need to give the user a response when MC receives a data .

Is it available to send data or character in USART receiver interrupt ?
If not , Do you have any alternative solution to solve my issue ?
How can I get out of receiver Interrupt to active another interrupt ? ( for example : MC's timer interrupt )

please consider my code, simple. like this :



Thanks In Advance : )

which compiler are you using? how is the 'putchar' implementation? bear in mind that you need to implement also an interrupt-driven putchar (because most implementations blocks the execution until it has the UDR buffer available).

if your code is as simple as that, I think you can replace it by:

but this will only work with simple 8-bit responses to 8-bit data request... if you want to send more complex response (like a string or bigger number (16,32 bit)) you need to implement some Transmission buffer and use a interrupt-driven 'putchar'

about your other question, you can always 'enable' any interrupt in your main code, or even inside an interrupt, it doesn't matter, but enabling them doesn't execute them. Also, remember that any pending interrupt is executed after exiting the current interrupt...

if your code requires a higher priority interrupt ( as the timer interrupt executing even when the uart interrupt is been executed), you can look for information about Non-Blocking interrupts for your compiler (in avr-gcc it's ISR_NOBLOCK), in that way, you can set the uart interrupt as non-block and the timer interrupt could trigger inside it...

if you want to execute the same tasks from one interrupt (like the timer tasks) from another interrupt (like inside the uart interrupt) it's better if you make a re-entrant procedure that can be called from both interrupts... if both interrupts routines are exactly the same you can look for aliases like the ISR_ALIASOF from avr-gcc's...