I have some hardware questions about the Promira Serial Platform.  I am using two of the GPIO (pins 14 and 15) as DO (data output). Are they both open-collector pins?  Will I need to add pull-up resistors to my test board?

Thanks for your question!  The pins are dual function and can be either “push-pull” or  “open collector” depending on how they are configured. For your setup, they are push-pull.

Push-Pull	Open Collector
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These are the details about Pin 14 and Pin 15:

Pin 14 can function as either SPI Slave Select/Chip Select 2 or GPIO signal 03.

Pin 15 can function as either SPI Slave Select/Chip Select 1 or GPIO signal 04.

• When configured as an SPI chip select (CS), they are “push-pull”, driven by the Promira platform.
• When configured as a GPIO output, they are “push-pull”, driven by the Promira platform.
• When configured as GPIO input, they are “tri-stated” – they behave as open-collector.  The internal lines of the Promira platform provide 2.2k pull-up resistors – you do not need to add external pull-up resistors.

We hope this answers your question. Additional resources that you may find helpful include the following:

• Promira Serial Platform I2C/SPI Active User Manual

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