EDN

One accelerometer interrupt pin for both wakeup and non-motion detection

Handheld devices including smartphones and Tablet PCs have touch screens and many buttons for different functions. In order to save battery power, if the screen is not touched or the button is not ...
Electronic Design

Use An On-Chip UART To Detect An Edge-Triggered Interrupt

Edge-triggered interrupts are useful in microcontroller (MCU) applications for processing asynchronous events like switch closures, level transitions, and pulses. However, low-cost MCUs offer limited ...
EDN

Applying the interrupt features of a MEMS accelerometer

Most of the latest 3-axis digital-MEMS accelerometers on the market can generate interrupts for a number of applications. Some of the applications—such as screen rotation, wakeup, freefall, single ...
Design-Reuse

Plug-n-play UVM Environment for Verification of Interrupts in an IP

In a System-on Chip(SoC),a general interrupt process works as follows: Interrupt is triggered by a certain system event or interrupt source. Interrupt is detected by system’s peripheral module, which ...