Interrupt Controller (INTC)
MPC5606S Microcontroller Reference Manual, Rev. 7
776 Freescale Semiconductor
 
Figure 21-10. Software Vector mode handshaking timing diagram
21.6.3.2 Hardware vector mode handshaking
A timing diagram of the interrupt request and acknowledge handshaking in hardware vector mode, along 
with the handshaking near the end of the interrupt exception handler, is shown in Figure 21-11. As in 
software vector mode, the INTC examines the peripheral and software settable interrupt requests, and 
when it finds an asserted one with a higher priority than PRI in INTC_CPR, it asserts the interrupt request 
to the processor. The INTVEC field in the INTC_IACKR is updated with the preempting peripheral or 
software settable interrupt request’s vector when the interrupt request to the processor is asserted. The 
INTVEC field retains that value until the next time the interrupt request to the processor is asserted. In 
addition, the value of the interrupt vector to the processor matches the value of the INTVEC field in the 
INTC_IACKR. The rest of the handshaking is described in 
Section 21.4.1.2, Hardware vector mode.
The handshaking near the end of the interrupt exception handler, that is the writing to the INTC_EOIR, is 
the same as in software vector mode. Refer to Section 21.6.3.1.2, End of interrupt exception handler.
010
Clock
Interrupt request to processor
Hardware vector enable
Interrupt vector
Interrupt acknowledge
Read INTC_IACKR
Write INTC_EOIR
INTVEC in INTC_IACKR
PRI in INTC_CPR
Peripheral interrupt request 100
0 108
0