Cortex-A9 MPCore Technical Reference Manual: 3.3.2. Interrupt Controller Type Register

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3.3.2. Interrupt Controller Type Register

The ICDICTR characteristics are:

Purpose: Provides information about the configuration of the Interrupt Controller.
Usage constraints: There are no usage constraints.
Configurations: Available in all Cortex-A9 MPCore configurations.
Attributes: See the register summary in Table 3.1.

Figure 3.3 shows the ICDICTR bit assignments.

Figure 3.3. ICDICTR bit assignments

Table 3.4 shows the ICDICTR bit assignments.

Table 3.4. ICDICTR bit assignments

Bits	Name	Function
[31:16]	-	Reserved
[15:11]	LSPI	Returns the number of Lockable Shared Peripheral Interrupts (LSPIs) that the controller contains. The encoding is: `b11111` 31 LSPIs, that are the interrupts of IDs 32-62. When CFGSDISABLE is HIGH, the interrupt controller prevents writes to any register location that controls the operating state of an LSPI.
[10]	SecurityExtn	Returns the number of security domains that the controller contains: 1 The controller contains two security domains. This bit always returns the value one.
[9:8]	-	Reserved
[7:5]	CPU number	The encoding is: `b000` The Cortex-A9 MPCore configuration contains one Cortex-A9 processor. `b001` The Cortex-A9 MPCore configuration contains two Cortex-A9 processors. `b010` The Cortex-A9 MPCore configuration contains three Cortex-A9 processors. `b011` The Cortex-A9 MPCore configuration contains four Cortex-A9 processors. `b1xx` Unused values.
[4:0]	IT lines number	The encoding is: `b00000` The distributor provides 32 interrupts^[a], no external interrupt lines. `b00001` The distributor provides 64 interrupts, 32 external interrupt lines. `b00010` The distributor provides 96 interrupts, 64 external interrupt lines. `b00011` The distributor provide 128 interrupts, 96 external interrupt lines. `b00100` The distributor provides 160 interrupts, 128 external interrupt lines. `b00101` The distributor provides 192 interrupts, 160 external interrupt lines. `b00110` The distributor provides 224 interrupts, 192 external interrupt lines. `b00111` The distributor provides 256 interrupts, 224 external interrupt lines. All other values not used.
^[a]The distributor always uses interrupts of IDs 0 to 31 to control any SGIs and PPIs that the Interrupt Controller might contain.

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