15.7.2 Power Management

The AIC is continuously clocked. The Power Management Controller has no effect on the AIC behavior.

The assertion of the AIC outputs, either nIRQ or nFIQ, wakes up the ARM processor while it is in Idle mode. The General Interrupt Mask feature enables the AIC to wake up the processor without asserting the interrupt line of the processor, thus providing synchronization of the processor on an event.