In real automotive system, lower wetting current is generally desired to reduce the system's overall power consumption. However, certain system design requires 10 mA or higher cleaning current to clear oxide build-up on the mechanical switch contact surface when the current is applied to closed switches. A special type of polling, called the Clean Current Polling (CCP), can be used for this application.

If CCP is enabled each polling cycle consists of two wetting current activation steps. The first step uses the wetting current setting configured in the WC_CFG0 and WC_CFG1 registers as in the continuous mode or polling mode. The second step (cleaning cycle) is activated simultaneously for all CCP enabled inputs at a time t_{CCP_TRAN} after the normal polling step of the last enabled input. Interrupt generation and INT pin assertion is not impacted by the clean current pulses.

The wetting current and its active time for the cleaning cycle can be configured in the CCP_CFG0 register. The cleaning cycle can be disabled, if desired, for each individual input by programming the CCP_CFG1 register. CCP is available for both continuous mode and polling mode. To use the CCP feature, at least one input has to be enabled.

Figure 8-14 illustrates the operation of the CCP when the device is configured to the polling mode.

Figure 8-14 Polling With CCP Enabled

Figure 8-15 illustrates the operation of the CCP when the device is configured to the continuous mode:

Figure 8-15 Continue Mode With CCP Enabled