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5.4 Interrupt Sources
5.4.1 External Interrupts
There are four types of external interrupts: NMI, IRQ7 to IRQ0, KIN15 to KIN0 and WUE7 to
WUE0. WUE7 to WUE0 and KIN15 to KIN8 share the IRQ7 interrupt source, and KIN7 to KIN0
share the IRQ6 interrupt source. Of these, NMI, IRQ7, IRQ6
,
and IRQ2 to IRQ0
can be used to
restore this LSI from software standby mode.
NMI Interrupt: NMI is the highest-priority interrupt, and is always accepted by the CPU
regardless of the interrupt control mode or the status of the CPU interrupt mask bits. The NMIEG
bit in SYSCR can be used to select whether an interrupt is requested at a rising edge or a falling
edge on the NMI pin.
IRQ7 to IRQ0 Interrupts: Interrupts IRQ7 to IRQ0 are requested by an input signal at pins IRQ7
to IRQ0. Interrupts IRQ7 to IRQ0 have the following features:
• The interrupt exception handling for interrupt requests IRQ7 to IRQ0 can be started at an
independent vector address.
• Using ISCR, it is possible to select whether an interrupt is generated by a low level, falling
edge, rising edge, or both edges, at pins IRQ7 to IRQ0.
• Enabling or disabling of interrupt requests IRQ7 to IRQ0 can be selected with IER.
• Interrupt control levels can be specified by the ICR settings.
• The status of interrupt requests IRQ7 to IRQ0 is indicated in ISR. ISR flags can be cleared to 0
by software.
The detection of IRQ7 to IRQ0 interrupts does not depend on whether the relevant pin has been
set for input or output. However, when a pin is used as an external interrupt input pin, do not clear
the corresponding DDR to 0 to use the pin as an I/O pin for another function.
A block diagram of interrupts IRQ7 to IRQ0 is shown in figure 5.3.
IRQn interrupt
request
IRQnE
IRQnF
S
R
Q
Clear signal
Edge/level
detection circuit
IRQnSCA, IRQnSCB
IRQn input
n = 7 to 0
Figure 5.3 Block Diagram of Interrupts IRQ7 to IRQ0
When pin IRQ6 is used as an IRQ6 interrupt input pin, clear the KMIMR6 bit to 0.