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Chapter 3: LPC24XX System control
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The state of this bit is preserved through a software reset, and only a POR or a BOD event will reset it to its default value.
4.
Brown-out detection
The LPC2400 includes 2-stage monitoring of the voltage on the V
DD(DCDC)(3V3)
pins. If this
voltage falls below 2.95 V, the Brown-Out Detector (BOD) asserts an interrupt signal to
the Vectored Interrupt Controller. This signal can be enabled for interrupt in the Interrupt
Enable Register in the VIC (see
Section 7–3.4 “Interrupt Enable Register (VICIntEnable -
) in order to cause a CPU interrupt; if not, software can monitor the signal
by reading the Raw Interrupt Status Register (see
Section 7–3.3 “Raw Interrupt Status
Register (VICRawIntr - 0xFFFF F008)”
The second stage of low-voltage detection asserts Reset to inactivate the LPC2400 when
the voltage on the V
DD(DCDC)(3V3)
pins falls below 2.65 V. This Reset prevents alteration of
the flash as operation of the various elements of the chip would otherwise become
unreliable due to low voltage. The BOD circuit maintains this reset down below 1 V, at
which point the Power-On Reset circuitry maintains the overall Reset.
Both the 2.95 V and 2.65 V thresholds include some hysteresis. In normal operation, this
hysteresis allows the 2.95 V detection to reliably interrupt, or a regularly-executed event
loop to sense the condition.
But when Brown-Out Detection is enabled to bring the LPC2400 out of Power-Down mode
(which is itself not a guaranteed operation -- see
Section 4–3.4.7 “Power Mode Control
register (PCON - 0xE01F C0C0)”
), the supply voltage may recover from a transient before
the Wakeup Timer has completed its delay. In this case, the net result of the transient
BOD is that the part wakes up and continues operation after the instructions that set
Power-Down Mode, without any interrupt occurring and with the BOD bit in the RSID
being 0. Since all other wakeup conditions have latching flags (see
“External Interrupt flag register (EXTINT - 0xE01F C140)”
and
), a wakeup
of this type, without any apparent cause, can be assumed to be a Brown-Out that has
gone away.
5
OSCEN
Main oscillator enable.
R/W
0
0
The main oscillator is disabled.
1
The main oscillator is enabled, and will start up if the correct external
circuitry is connected to the XTAL1 and XTAL2 pins.
6
OSCSTAT
Main oscillator status.
RO
0
0
The main oscillator is not ready to be used as a clock source.
1
The main oscillator is ready to be used as a clock source. The main
oscillator must be enabled via the OSCEN bit.
31:7 -
-
Reserved. User software should not write ones to reserved bits. The value
read from a reserved bit is not defined.
-
NA
Table 38.
System Controls and Status register (SCS - address 0xE01F C1A0) bit description
Bit
Symbol
Value Description
Access Reset
value