Question from the Customer
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?
Response from Technical Support: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.
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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.
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