VIPER Technical Manual

Detailed hardware description

 

 

General purpose I/O

Eight general-purpose input lines and eight general-purpose output lines are provided on connector PL9.

To read from IN[0:7], read the least significant byte located at offset 0x500000 from CS5 (0x14000000) to sample the 8 inputs from PL9.

VIPER inputsPXA255 data

 

 

 

IN0

D0

 

 

3.3V

IN1

D1

 

 

10k

PXA255

D[0:7]

Transceiver IN[0:7] ohms PL9

IN2

D2

 

 

 

IN3D3

IN4D4

IN5D5

IN6D6

IN7D7

The PXA255 is not designed to interface to 8-bit peripherals, so when the 8-bits of data are read only the least significant byte from the word contains the data.

Data bus

Most Significant Byte

Least Significant Byte

D15 D14 D13 D12 D11 D10 D9 D8 D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0

Don’t Care

IN Data

 

 

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