Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

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Date 10/18/2021
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Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Multi-Channel Shared Memory FIFO Core 3. Avalon® -ST Single-Clock and Dual-Clock FIFO Cores 4. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 5. SPI Core 6. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 7. Intel eSPI Agent Core 8. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 9. Ethernet MDIO Core 10. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 11. UART Core 12. JTAG UART Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 15. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 16. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 17. Intel FPGA Avalon® Compact Flash Core 18. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 19. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 21. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 22. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 23. Interval Timer Core 24. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 25. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Core 26. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) 27. Optrex 16207 LCD Controller Core 28. PIO Core 29. PLL Cores 30. DMA Controller Core 31. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 32. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 33. SDRAM Controller Core 34. Tri-State SDRAM Core 35. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 36. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 37. Performance Counter Unit Core 38. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 39. Avalon® -ST Data Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 40. Avalon® -ST Test Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 41. System ID Peripheral Core 42. Avalon® Packets to Transactions Converter Core 43. Avalon® -ST Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Cores 44. Avalon® -ST Bytes to Packets and Packets to Bytes Converter Cores 45. Avalon® -ST Delay Core 46. Avalon® -ST Round Robin Scheduler Core 47. Avalon® -ST Splitter Core 48. Avalon® -MM DDR Memory Half Rate Bridge Core 49. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 50. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 51. Intel FPGA HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core 52. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 53. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core

38.8.2. Software Interrupt

Software can trigger any VIC interrupt by writing to the appropriate VIC control and status register (CSR). Software can trigger the interrupt connected to any hardware interrupt source, as well as interrupts that are not connected to hardware (software-only interrupts).

Triggering an interrupt from software is useful for debugging. Software can control exactly when an interrupt is triggered, and measure the system’s interrupt response.

You can use a software-only interrupt to re-prioritize an interrupt. An ISR that responds to a high-priority hardware interrupt can perform the minimum processing required by the hardware, and then trigger a software-only interrupt at a lower priority level to complete the interrupt processing.

The following functions are available for managing software interrupts:

  • alt_vic_sw_interrupt_set()
  • alt_vic_sw_interrupt_clear()
  • alt_vic_sw_interrupt_status()

The implementations of these functions are in bsp/hal/drivers/src/altera_vic_sw_intr.c after you generate the BSP.

Note: You must define a value for the interrupt number in SOFT_IRQ.

Registering a Software Interrupt

alt_ic_isr_register(
  VIC1_INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER_ID,
  SOFT_IRQ,
  soft_interrupt_latency_irq,
  NULL, NULL)

Registering a Timer Interrupt (for Comparison)

alt_ic_isr_register(
  LATENCY_TIMER_IRQ_INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER_ID,
  LATENCY_TIMER_IRQ,
  timer_interrupt_latency_irq,
  LATENCY_TIMER_BASE,
  NULL);

The following code generates a software interrupt:

alt_vic_sw_interrupt_set(VIC1_INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER_ID, SOFT_IRQ);