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6. Interrupt Controller (INTC)

Rev.5.00 Sep. 27, 2007 Page 76 of 716

REJ09B0398-0500

6.2

Interrupt Sources

There are three types of interrupt sources: NMI, IRQ, and on-chip peripheral modules. Each

interrupt has a priority expressed as a priority level (0 to 16, with 0 the lowest and 16 the highest).

Giving an interrupt a priority level of 0 masks it.

6.2.1

NMI Interrupts

The NMI interrupt has priority 16 and is always accepted. Input at the NMI pin is detected by

edge. Use the NMI edge select bit (NMIE) in the interrupt control register (ICR) to select either

the rising or falling edge. NMI interrupt exception processing sets the interrupt mask level bits (I3

to I0) in the status register (SR) to level 15.

6.2.2

IRQ Interrupts

IRQ interrupts are requested by input from pins

IRQ0 to IRQ3, IRQ6, IRQ7. Set the IRQ sense

select bits (IRQ0S to IRQ3S, IRQ6S, IRQ7S) of the interrupt control register (ICR) to select low

level detection or falling edge detection for each pin. The priority level can be set from 0 to 15 for

each pin using the interrupt priority registers A and B (IPRA and IPRB).

When IRQ interrupts are set to low level detection, an interrupt request signal is sent to the INTC

during the period the IRQ pin is low level. Interrupt request signals are not sent to the INTC when

the IRQ pin becomes high level. Interrupt request levels can be confirmed by reading the IRQ

flags (IRQ0F to IRQ3F, IRQ6F, IRQ7F) of the IRQ status register (ISR).

When IRQ interrupts are set to falling edge detection, interrupt request signals are sent to the

INTC upon detecting a change on the IRQ pin from high to low level. IRQ interrupt request

detection results are maintained until the interrupt request is accepted. Confirmation that IRQ

interrupt requests have been detected is possible by reading the IRQ flags (IRQ0F to IRQ3F,

IRQ6F, IRQ7F) of the IRQ status register (ISR), and by writing a 0 after reading a 1, IRQ

interrupt request detection results can be withdrawn.

In IRQ interrupt exception processing, the interrupt mask bits (I3 to I0) of the status register (SR)

are set to the priority level value of the accepted IRQ interrupt.

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