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12.4.3.4 Vector Table
The vector table contains the reset value of the stack pointer, and the start addresses, also called exception vectors, for
all exception handlers.
Figure 12-6
shows the order of the exception vectors in the vector table. The least-significant bit
of each vector must be 1, indicating that the exception handler is Thumb code.
Figure 12-6.
Vector Table
On system reset, the vector table is fixed at address 0x00000000. Privileged software can write to the SCB_VTOR regis-
ter to relocate the vector table start address to a different memory location, in the range 0x00000080 to 0x3FFFFF80,
see
“Vector Table Offset Register”
.
12.4.3.5 Exception Priorities
As
Table 12-9
shows, all exceptions have an associated priority, with:
A lower priority value indicating a higher priority.
Configurable priorities for all exceptions except Reset, Hard fault and NMI.
If the software does not configure any priorities, then all exceptions with a configurable priority have a priority of 0. For
information about configuring exception priorities see
“System Handler Priority Registers”
, and
“Interrupt Priority
Registers”
.
Note:
Configurable priority values are in the range 0-15. This means that the Reset, Hard fault, and NMI exceptions,
with fixed negative priority values, always have higher priority than any other exception.
For example, assigning a higher priority value to IRQ[0] and a lower priority value to IRQ[1] means that IRQ[1] has higher
priority than IRQ[0]. If both IRQ[1] and IRQ[0] are asserted, IRQ[1] is processed before IRQ[0].
If multiple pending exceptions have the same priority, the pending exception with the lowest exception number takes pre-
cedence. For example, if both IRQ[0] and IRQ[1] are pending and have the same priority, then IRQ[0] is processed
before IRQ[1].
Initial SP value
Reset
Hard fault
NMI
Memory management fault
Usage fault
Bus fault
0x0000
0x0004
0x0008
0x000C
0x0010
0x0014
0x0018
Reserved
SVCall
PendSV
Reserved for Debug
SysTick
IRQ0
Reserved
0x002C
0x0038
0x003C
0x0040
Offset
Exception number
2
1
3
4
5
6
11
10
9
12
14
13
15
16
18
17
7
Vector
.
.
.
8
IRQ1
IRQ2
0x0044
IRQ239
0x0048
0x004C
255
.
.
.
.
.
.
0x03FC
IRQ number
-14
-13
-12
-11
-10
-5
-2
-1
0
2
1
239