19. Nested vectored interrupt controller (NVIC)

19.1 NVIC features

The NVIC includes the following features:

• • up to 140 maskable interrupt channels for STM32H7xxx (not including the 16 interrupt lines of Cortex®-M7 with FPU)
• • 16 programmable priority levels (4 bits of interrupt priority are used)
• • low-latency exception and interrupt handling
• • power management control
• • implementation of system control registers

The NVIC and the processor core interface are closely coupled, which enables low latency interrupt processing and efficient processing of late arriving interrupts.

All interrupts, including the core exceptions, are managed by the NVIC.

For more information on exceptions and NVIC programming, refer to PM0253 programming manual for Cortex®-M7.

19.1.1 SysTick calibration value register

The SysTick calibration value (SYST_CALIB) is fixed to 0x3E8. It provides a reference timebase of 1 ms based when the SysTick clock frequency is 1 MHz. To match the 1 ms timebase whatever the application frequency, the SysTick reload value must be programmed as follows in the SYST_RVR register:

• • The SysTick clock source is the 100 MHz CPU clock (HCLK):

• • or the SysTick clock source is an external clock:

where \( F_{\text{HCLK}} \) refers to the AHB frequency expressed in MHz.

For example, to achieve a timebase of 1 ms when the SysTick clock source is the 100 MHz HCLK:

19.1.2 Interrupt and exception vectors

The exception vectors connected to the NVIC are the following: reset, NMI, HardFault, MemManage, Bus Fault, UsageFault, SVCall, DebugMonitor, PendSV, SysTick.

Table 140. NVIC ⁽¹⁾

1. 1. When different signals are connected to the same NVIC interrupt line, they are ORed.