SNIU028D February 2016 – September 2020 UCD3138 , UCD3138064 , UCD3138064A , UCD3138128 , UCD3138A , UCD3138A64
The CIM prioritizes the received interrupts based upon a hardware and software prioritization scheme. The software prioritization scheme is user configurable. The CIM can send two interrupt requests to the CPU simultaneously—one IRQ and one FIQ. If both interrupt types are enabled at the CPU, then the FIQ has greater priority and is handled first. The hardware prioritization scheme sends the highest numbered active channel (in each FIQ and IRQ interrupt request) to the CPU. Within the FIQ and IRQ classes of interrupts, the highest channel has the highest priority interrupt. The CIM sends the highest priority interrupt of both the IRQ and FIQ classes of interrupt requests to the CPU.