SPRS825F October 2012 – June 2020 F28M36H33B2 , F28M36H53B2 , F28M36P53C2 , F28M36P63C2
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The Cortex-M3 direct memory access (µDMA) module provides a hardware method of transferring data between peripherals, between memory, and between peripherals and memory without intervention from the Cortex-M3 CPU. The NVIC manages and prioritizes interrupt handling for the Cortex-M3 CPU.
The Cortex-M3 peripherals use REQ/DONE handshaking to coordinate data transfer requests with the µDMA. If a DMA channel is enabled for a given peripheral, REQ/DONE from the peripheral will trigger the data transfer, following which an IRQ request may be sent from the µDMA to the NVIC to announce to the Cortex-M3 that the transfer has completed. If a DMA channel is not enabled for a given peripheral, REQ/DONE will directly drive IRQ to the NVIC so that the Cortex-M3 CPU can transfer the data. For those peripherals that are not supported by the µDMA, IRQs are supplied directly to the NVIC, bypassing the DMA. This case is true for both Watchdogs, CANs, I2Cs, and the Analog-to-Digital Converters sending ADCINT[8:1] interrupts from the Analog Subsystem. The NMI Watchdog does not send any events to the µDMA or the NVIC (only to the Resets block).