From the hardware standpoint, context is just a register file − a piece of static memory with multiport access. Different ports are connected to different internal or external CPU signals or busses. For example, various bits of SR are mapped to various signals of ALU and/or shifter, while SR as a whole is mapped to the internal AscetiCore CPU data bus for LDSR, ORSR, BRSR and STSR instructuions to work.

Various duties carried out by an operating system, like task creation, serving system requests, et c., also involves an access to contexts. In other architectures it is typically done via special, usually privileged, instructions (LOADALL instructions in x86 architecture) or tinkering with call stacks.

AscetiCore do not have privileged resources for the sake of design simplicity. Also, using a call stack in AscetiCore is optional, therefore call stacks are not involved in context switching. For contexts to be accessed in software, register files are have to be mapped to the certain regions of physical memory. Paging mechanics may be used to protect those regions from unauthorized access.

One context (register file) takes 256 bytes of memory, as shown below.