• This technique is used to overcome the limitation of programmed I/O.
• In interrupt driven I/O, instead of making the processor to verify the status of I/O module. It is the responsibility of I/O module to intimate the processor by interrupt signal.
• CPU responds to interrupt signals and stores the return address from the program counter (PC) into the memory stack and then the control branches to a interrupt service routine (ISR).
• ISR processes the required I/O Transfer.
• After completion of executing interrupt routine CPU returns to previous program and continue what it was doing before.

Interrupt:

• An interrupt or exception causes CPU to transfer the control temporarily from its current program to another program i.e. interrupt handler.
• Block Diagram for Interrupt Driven I/O