sam4s8c ATMEL Corporation, sam4s8c Datasheet - Page 24

• Manufacturer Part Number: sam4s8c
• Description: At91sam Arm-based Flash Mcu
• Manufacturer: ATMEL Corporation

6. Input/Output Lines
6.1
6.2
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General Purpose I/O Lines
System I/O Lines
The SAM4S has several kinds of input/output (I/O) lines such as general purpose I/Os (GPIO)
and system I/Os. GPIOs can have alternate functionality due to multiplexing capabilities of the
PIO controllers. The same PIO line can be used whether in I/O mode or by the multiplexed
peripheral. System I/Os include pins such as test pins, oscillators, erase or analog inputs.
GPIO Lines are managed by PIO Controllers. All I/Os have several input or output modes such
as pull-up or pull-down, input Schmitt triggers, multi-drive (open-drain), glitch filters, debouncing
or input change interrupt. Programming of these modes is performed independently for each I/O
line through the PIO controller user interface. For more details, refer to the product “PIO Control-
ler” section.
The input/output buffers of the PIO lines are supplied through VDDIO power supply rail.
The SAM4S embeds high speed pads able to handle up to 32 MHz for HSMCI (MCK/2), 45 MHz
for SPI clock lines and 35 MHz on other lines. See AC Characteristics Section of the datasheet
for more details. Typical pull-up and pull-down value is 100 kΩ for all I/Os.
Each I/O line also embeds an ODT (On-Die Termination), (see
an internal series resistor termination scheme for impedance matching between the driver out-
put (SAM4S) and the PCB trace impedance preventing signal reflection. The series resistor
helps to reduce IOs switching current (di/dt) thereby reducing in turn, EMI. It also decreases
overshoot and undershoot (ringing) due to inductance of interconnect between devices or
between boards. In conclusion ODT helps diminish signal integrity issues.
Figure 6-1.
System I/O lines are pins used by oscillators, test mode, reset and JTAG to name but a few.
Described below in
These pins are software configurable as general purpose I/O or system pins. At startup the
default function of these pins is always used.
On-Die Termination
Table
Zout ~ 10 Ohms
SAM4 Driver with
6-1are the SAM4S system I/O lines shared with PIO lines.
36 Ohms Typ.
Rodt
ODT
Z0 ~ Zout + Rodt
Z0 ~ 50 Ohms
PCB Trace
Figure 6-1
Receiver
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