SPRUJD3A July 2025 – October 2025 F28E120SB , F28E120SC
A signal called ERRORSTS can be output to GPIO24, GPIO28, or GPIO29. This signal goes low when any bit is set in the NMI shadow flag register (NMISHDFLG). The signal can be used to alert an external system to a problem in the microcontroller. Since the state of ERRORSTS is based on the shadow flags, ERRORSTS remains low until the flags are cleared by the CPU or a power-on reset occurs.
All GPIO pins are inputs on power-up. If the state of the chosen ERRORSTS pin during power-up is important, an external pull-down must be connected to the pin.
The ERRORSTS pin is an ‘always output’ pin and remains high until an error is detected inside the chip. On an error, the ERRORSTS pin goes low (default polarity) until the corresponding internal error status flag for that error source is cleared. Figure 3-4 shows the functionality of the ERRORSTS pin.
The ERRORSTS pin is tri-stated until the chip power rails ramp up to the lower operational limit. As the ERRORSTS pin is an active-low pin (default polarity), users who care about the state of this pin during power-up can connect an external pull-down on this pin.
Following enhancement has been made on this device for ERRORSTS pin logic: