Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-28 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Leon, sorry for the late reply. On Monday 13 October 2008, Leon Woestenberg wrote: Hello Laurent, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least until someone plugs in that expansion module! Bill's remark made a neuron connection in my head: Can

[OT] Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-14 Thread Gabriel Paubert
[Marked off-topic because it is exclusively hardware related] On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:12:02AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: Laurent Pinchart wrote: There are no internal pull-up or pull-down resistors on the MPC8248 GPIO pins. I know our hardware engineer has a valid point

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Laurent Pinchart wrote: our hardware engineer asked me to make sure all unused GPIO pins are configured as outputs to avoid floating inputs. He got theory on his side (floating inputs can lead to higher current consumption, metastability or even permanent damage), but

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Bill Gatliff
Laurent Pinchart wrote: There are no internal pull-up or pull-down resistors on the MPC8248 GPIO pins. I know our hardware engineer has a valid point theoretically. Does the point stand practically, or does the MPC8248 state-of-the-art(tm)(c)(whatever) technology make floating inputs

Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi everybody, our hardware engineer asked me to make sure all unused GPIO pins are configured as outputs to avoid floating inputs. He got theory on his side (floating inputs can lead to higher current consumption, metastability or even permanent damage), but I'd like to ask the list for

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Leon, On Monday 13 October 2008, Leon Woestenberg wrote: Hello Laurent, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Laurent Pinchart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: our hardware engineer asked me to make sure all unused GPIO pins are configured as outputs to avoid floating inputs. He got theory on his

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Hello Laurent, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Laurent Pinchart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: our hardware engineer asked me to make sure all unused GPIO pins are configured as outputs to avoid floating inputs. He got theory on his side (floating inputs can lead to higher current consumption,

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Geert, On Monday 13 October 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Laurent Pinchart wrote: our hardware engineer asked me to make sure all unused GPIO pins are configured as outputs to avoid floating inputs. He got theory on his side (floating inputs can lead to higher

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Hello Laurent, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least until someone plugs in that expansion module! Bill's remark made a neuron connection in my head: Can you detect if the module is inserted or not? (By reading a known state of some pin)? You could

Re: Floating inputs on unused GPIO pins

2008-10-13 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Hi Laurent, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Laurent Pinchart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no internal pull-up or pull-down resistors on the MPC8248 GPIO pins. I know our hardware engineer has a valid point theoretically. Does the point stand practically, or does the MPC8248