8 Event System Setup

The Event System is used for routing signals internally between modules on the device. An overview of the Event System configuration used for this application note is shown in the figure below.

The two encoder inputs are each routed from the I/O Pin Controller (PORT) module to an asynchronous event channel. They are then passed on to the Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) and the two 16-bit Timer/Counter Type B (TCB) modules by configuring the event user registers to the correct event channels.

The output from LUT1 is used both as the event generator for asynchronous channel 2 directly, and as the generator for synchronous channel 0 indirectly via the pin. This is represented by the top and bottom arrows in the figure above. The reason is that the 16-bit Timer/Counter Type A (TCA) module accepts only synchronous events, while the Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) generates asynchronous events. Passing the asynchronous event via the I/O Pin Controller (PORT) module to generate synchronous events is, therefore, needed for this application.