MSC8144E Reference Manual, Rev. 3
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Interrupt Handling
13.1
Global Interrupt Controller (GIC)
The GIC generates 18 VIRQs and 4 VNMIs by
writing to registers in the GIC memory map. The
GIC also uses two additional VIRQ slots to generate a non-maskable interrupt NMI_OUT and a
maskable interrupt INT_OUT to external devices.
13.1.1 Virtual Interrupt Generation
A virtual interrupt is generated via a write access to the Virtual Interrupt Generation Register
(VIGR) by one of the SC3400 cores or an external host CPU. Table 13-1 describes the
destination of the supported VIRQs.
The GIC has a status register to indicate whether a virtual interrupt was generated at least once,
while not preventing the generation of another interrupt. The core that services the interrupt may
clear this status bit by writing a value of one to it, or it may ignore this bit and work locally.
Table 13-1. VIRQ Description
VIRQ Num
Destination
VIRQ_0
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 0 at SC3400
VIRQ_1
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 1 at SC3400
VIRQ_2
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 2 at SC3400
VIRQ_3
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 3 at SC3400
VIRQ_4
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 4 at SC3400
VIRQ_5
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 5 at SC3400
VIRQ_6
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 6 at SC3400
VIRQ_7
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 7 at SC3400
VIRQ_8
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 8 at SC3400
VIRQ_9
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 9 at SC3400
VIRQ_10
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 10 at SC3400
VIRQ_11
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 11 at SC3400
VIRQ_12
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 12 at SC3400
VIRQ_13
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 13 at SC3400
VIRQ_14
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 14 at SC3400
VIRQ_15
Connected to Virtual Interrupt 15 at SC3400
VIRQ_16
Connected to INT_OUT (see 13.2.2, External Interrupts)
VIRQ_17
Used for the generation of NMI_OUT (see 13.2.2, External Interrupts)
VIRQ_18
Connected to the QUICC Engine module 0 input interrupt
VIRQ_19
Connected to the QUICC Engine module 1 input interrupt
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