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Interrupt generation

AN4504

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Selective axis movement and wake-up interrupts

The L3G4200D interrupts signal can behave as selective axis movement detection and

wake-up. Whenever an interrupt condition is verified, the interrupt signal is generated and

by reading the INT1_SRC register it is possible to understand which condition happened.

The selective axis movement detection signal (SA) and wake-up signal (WU) interrupt

generation block is represented in Figure 9.

The SA or WU interrupt generation is selected through the AND/OR bit in the INT1_CFG

through the INT1_CFG register are put in logical OR. In this case, interrupt is generated

when at least one of the enabled axes exceeds the threshold written in the module in the

INT1_THS_xH and INT1_THS_xL registers. Otherwise, if the AND/OR bit is ‘1’, signals

coming from the comparators enter a “NAND” port. In this case an interrupt signal is

generated only if all the enabled axes are passing the threshold.

The LIR bit of INT1_CFG allows deciding if the interrupt request must be latched or not. If

the LIR bit is ‘0’ (default value), the interrupt signal goes high when the interrupt condition is

satisfied and returns to low immediately if the interrupt condition is no longer verified.

Otherwise, if the LIR bit is ‘1’, whenever an interrupt condition is applied the interrupt signal

remains high even if the condition returns to a non-interrupt status until a read of the

INT1_SRC register is performed.

The ZHIE, ZLIE, YHIE, YLIE, XHIE, and XLIE bits of the INT1_CFG register allow deciding

on which axis the interrupt decision must be performed and on which direction the threshold

must be passed to generate the interrupt request.

Figure 9. No-move, wake-up interrupt generator

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