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Product data sheet Rev. 05 — 7 March 2007 22 of 35
NXP Semiconductors
LPC2109/2119/2129
Single-chip 16/32-bit microcontrollers
The Wake-up Timer monitors the crystal oscillator as the means of checking whether it is
safe to begin code execution. When power is applied to the chip, or some event caused
the chip to exit Power-down mode, some time is required for the oscillator to produce a
signal of sufficient amplitude to drive the clock logic. The amount of time depends on
many factors, including the rate of V
DD
ramp (in the case of power on), the type of crystal
and its electrical characteristics (if a quartz crystal is used), as well as any other external
circuitry (e.g. capacitors), and the characteristics of the oscillator itself under the existing
ambient conditions.
6.20.4 External interrupt inputs
The LPC2109/2119/2129 include up to nine edge or level sensitive External Interrupt
Inputs as selectable pin functions. When the pins are combined, external events can be
processed as four independent interrupt signals. The External Interrupt Inputs can
optionally be used to wake up the processor from Power-down mode.
6.20.5 Memory mapping control
The Memory Mapping Control alters the mapping of the interrupt vectors that appear
beginning at address 0x0000 0000. Vectors may be mapped to the bottom of the on-chip
flash memory, or to the on-chip static RAM. This allows code running in different memory
spaces to have control of the interrupts.
6.20.6 Power control
The LPC2109/2119/2129 support two reduced power modes: Idle mode and Power-down
mode. In Idle mode, execution of instructions is suspended until either a Reset or interrupt
occurs. Peripheral functions continue operation during Idle mode and may generate
interrupts to cause the processor to resume execution. Idle mode eliminates power used
by the processor itself, memory systems and related controllers, and internal buses.
In Power-down mode, the oscillator is shut down and the chip receives no internal clocks.
The processor state and registers, peripheral registers, and internal SRAM values are
preserved throughout Power-down mode and the logic levels of chip output pins remain
static. The Power-down mode can be terminated and normal operation resumed by either
a Reset or certain specific interrupts that are able to function without clocks. Since all
dynamic operation of the chip is suspended, Power-down mode reduces chip power
consumption to nearly zero.
A Power Control for Peripherals feature allows individual peripherals to be turned off if
they are not needed in the application, resulting in additional power savings.
6.20.7 VPB bus
The VPB divider determines the relationship between the processor clock (CCLK) and the
clock used by peripheral devices (PCLK). The VPB divider serves two purposes. The first
is to provide peripherals with the desired PCLK via VPB bus so that they can operate at
the speed chosen for the ARM processor. In order to achieve this, the VPB bus may be
slowed down to
1
⁄
2
to
1
⁄
4
of the processor clock rate. Because the VPB bus must work
properly at power-up (and its timing cannot be altered if it does not work since the VPB
divider control registers reside on the VPB bus), the default condition at reset is for the
VPB bus to run at
1
⁄
4
of the processor clock rate. The second purpose of the VPB divider
is to allow power savings when an application does not require any peripherals to run at
the full processor rate. Because the VPB divider is connected to the PLL output, the PLL
remains active (if it was running) during Idle mode.