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Re: spurious interrupts on LPC

2006-03-14 by ian.scanlon

Perhaps this will help:
http://www.arm.com/contact_us/

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Jayasooriah <jayasooriah@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Marko,
> 
> I read the AN a few times -- in section 3.1, in explaining one 
source of 
> spurious interrupts when feeding watchdog timer, it says:
> 
> "The disabling of interrupts before the feed sequence may lead to 
the 
> occurrence of spurious interrupts."
> 
> OS'es disable and enable interrupts all the time.  They however do 
not have 
> to deal with spurious interrupts as a consequence.  Interrupts can 
be lost 
> as a result due to folding, but spurious interrupts?  In the case 
of LPC, 
> this AN suggests the OS must cope with spurious interrupts if it 
disables 
> and enables interrupts.
> 
> This begs the question: is this erroneous behaviour LPC specific, 
or does 
> it affect any other (all?) ARM VIC implementations?
> 
> The AN suggests the latter is the case but I cannot find any 
documentation 
> relating to ARM Primecell VIC specifications that supports this.
> 
> Jaya
> 
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Marko Pavlin (home)" <mp@> wrote:
>  >
>  > Just a reference:
>  > 
> 
http://www.standardics.philips.com/support/documents/microcontrollers/
pdf/an10414.pdf
>  > 
> 
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