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P R E L I M I N A R Y

Analog-to-Digital Converter

Z8 Encore! XP® F08xA Series

Product Specification

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Programmable Trigger Point Alarm

The ADC contains two programmable trigger values, a high and a low. Each of these val-

ues is 8 bits and is NOT a two’s complement number. The alarm is intended primarily for

single ended operation and so the alarm values reflect positive numbers only. Both thresh-

olds have independent control and status bits.

When enabled and the ADC bits exceed the high threshold, an ADC interrupt is asserted

and the high threshold status bit is set. When enabled and the ADC bits are less than the

low threshold, an ADC interrupt is asserted and the low threshold status bit is set.

Because the alarm value is positive it is compared to the most significant 8 data bits of the

ADC values, excluding the sign bit. The ADC alarm bits are compared to

{ADCD_H[6:0],ADCD_L[7]}. Alternatively, the alarm value is compared to the ADC

value shifted left by one bit. Negative ADC values never trigger the high alarm and always

trigger the low alarm. Because the ADC output is software compensated for offset, nega-

tive (pre-compensated) values can occur in SINGLE-ENDED mode.

The alarm is used in CONTINUOUS mode, in which it no longer is required to service an

interrupt for each ADC sample. If used in SINGLE-SHOT mode, the ADC never inter-

rupts the CPU unless the single sample triggers an alarm.

The alarm status bits are updated on each conversion, regardless of the alarm enable bit

values. The alarm enable bits only determine whether or not an interrupt is generated.

Interrupts

The ADC is able to interrupt the CPU under three conditions:

• When a conversion has been completed

• When the 8 Most Significant Bits of a sample exceed the programmable high threshold

ADCTHI[7:0]

• When the 8 Most Significant Bits of a sample is less than the programmable low threshold

ADCTLO[7:0]

The conversion interrupt occurs when the ADC is enabled and both alarms are disabled.

When either or both alarms are enabled, the conversion interrupt is disabled and only the

alarm interrupts occur.

When the ADC is disabled, none of the three sources cause an interrupt to be asserted;

however, an interrupt pending when the ADC is disabled is not cleared.

The three interrupt events share a common CPU interrupt. The interrupt service routine

must query the ADC status register to determine the cause of an ADC interrupt. The regis-

ter bits denoting ADC alarm status can only be set by hardware and are cleared by writing

a 1.

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