Motorola DSP56012 3.6 INTERRUPT PRIORITY REGISTER

Memory, Operating Modes, and Interrupts
Interrupt Priority Register
MOTOROLA DSP56012 User’s Manual 3-15
3.6 INTERRUPT PRIORITY REGISTER
Interrupt priorities are determined in the 24-bit Interrupt Priority Register (IPR). The
Interrupt Priority Level (IPL) for each on-chip peripheral device and for two of the
external interrupt sources can be programmed, under software control, to one of
three maskable priority levels (IPL 0,1 or 2). IPLs are set by writing to the IPR. The
IPR configuration is shown in Figure 3-6.
• Bits 5–0 of the IPR are used by the DSP56000 core for two of the external
interrupt request inputs, IRQA (IAL [2:0]) and IRQB (IBL[2:0]); assuming the
same IPL, IRQA has higher a priority than IRQB.
• Bits 9–6 and 23–18 are reserved for future use.
• Bits 17–10 are available for determining IPLs for each peripheral (Host, SHI,
DAX, SAI). Two IPL bits are required for each peripheral interrupt group.
The interrupt priorities are shown in Table 3-4 on page 3-16 and the interrupt
vectors are shown in Table 3-5 on page 3-17.