1.27.3 Advanced Interrupt Controller (AIC)

Controls the Interrupt Lines (nIRQ and nFIQ) of an ARM Processor

• 128 Individually Maskable and Vectored Interrupt Sources

• Source 0 is reserved for the fast interrupt input (FIQ)

• Programmable edge-triggered or level-sensitive internal sources

• Programmable rising/falling edge-triggered or high/low level-sensitive external sources

• 8-level Priority Controller

  • Drives the normal interrupt of the processor

  • Handles priority of the interrupt sources 1 to 127

  • Higher priority interrupts can be served during service of lower priority interrupt

• Vectoring

  • Optimizes interrupt service routine branch and execution

  • One 32-bit vector register for all interrupt sources

  • Interrupt vector register reads the corresponding current interrupt vector

• General Interrupt Mask

  • Provides processor synchronization on events without triggering an interrupt

  • Register Write Protection

Using The Library

The AIC peripheral library initializes interrupt controller as configured by the user in the MHC. User can launch the AIC configurator using the "Tools" drop down in MHC menu bar. Using the AIC configurator, user can enable interrupt, configure priority, interrupt type and interrupt vector name.

NOTE: Only the interrupts of type non secure can be configured.Software routing of interrupts between secure and non-secure domains are not supported

Library Interface

Advanced Interrupt Controller peripheral library provides the following interfaces:

Functions

Name	Description
AIC_INT_Initialize	Initializes Advanced Interrupt Controller (AIC) peripheral library
AIC_INT_IrqEnable	Enable Processor interrupt
AIC_INT_IrqDisable	Disable Processor interrupt
AIC_INT_IrqRestore	Restore processor interrupt state