Philips Semiconductors
P89LPC930/931
8-bit microcontrollers with two-clock 80C51 core
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8.10 Interrupts
The P89LPC930/931 uses a four priority level interrupt structure. This allows great
flexibility in controlling the handling of the many interrupt sources. The
P89LPC930/931 supports 13 interrupt sources: external interrupts 0 and 1, timers 0
and 1, serial port Tx, serial port Rx, combined serial port Rx/Tx, brownout detect,
watchdog/real-time clock, I
2
C, keyboard, and comparators 1 and 2, and SPI.
Each interrupt source can be individually enabled or disabled by setting or clearing a
bit in the interrupt enable registers IEN0 or IEN1. The IEN0 register also contains a
global disable bit, EA, which disables all interrupts.
Each interrupt source can be individually programmed to one of four priority levels by
setting or clearing bits in the interrupt priority registers IP0, IP0H, IP1, and IP1H. An
interrupt service routine in progress can be interrupted by a higher priority interrupt,
but not by another interrupt of the same or lower priority. The highest priority interrupt
service cannot be interrupted by any other interrupt source. If two requests of
different priority levels are pending at the start of an instruction, the request of higher
priority level is serviced.
If requests of the same priority level are pending at the start of an instruction, an
internal polling sequence determines which request is serviced. This is called the
arbitration ranking. Note that the arbitration ranking is only used to resolve pending
requests of the same priority level.
8.10.1 External interrupt inputs
The P89LPC930/931 has two external interrupt inputs as well as the Keypad Interrupt
function. The two interrupt inputs are identical to those present on the standard
80C51 microcontrollers.
These external interrupts can be programmed to be level-triggered or edge-triggered
by setting or clearing bit IT1 or IT0 in Register TCON.
In edge-triggered mode if successive samples of the INTn pin show a HIGH in one
cycle and a LOW in the next cycle, the interrupt request flag IEn in TCON is set,
causing an interrupt request.
If an external interrupt is enabled when the P89LPC930/931 is put into Power-down
or Idle mode, the interrupt will cause the processor to wake-up and resume operation.
Refer to Section 8.13 “Power reduction modes” for details.
