Hardware Design Guidelines—Intel®IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors

3.6.1Signal Interface

Table 12.

GPIO Signal Recommendations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type

Pull

 

 

Name

Up/

Recommendations

 

Field

 

 

Down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Purpose Input/Output.

 

 

 

 

If used as an input interrupt (only GPIO [12:0]), should be pull-up or pull-down, depending

 

 

 

 

on the level of activation. For example:

 

GPIO[13:0]

IO

Yes

Active high, use a 10-KΩpull-down resistor.

 

 

 

 

Active low, use a 10-KΩpull-up resistor.

 

 

 

 

Should be pulled high through a 10-KΩresistor when not used.

 

 

 

 

Note: Alternate function for GPIO[1] - External USB 48 MHz Bypass Clock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Purpose Input/Output.

 

GPIO[14]

IO

Yes

Same recommendations as GPIO[13:0]. An additional feature includes Clock generation, max

 

 

 

 

clock out 33.33 MHz., set as input by default.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Purpose Input/Output.

 

GPIO[15]

IO

Yes

Same recommendations as GPIO[13:0]. An additional feature includes Clock generation, max

 

 

 

 

clock out 33.33 MHz., set as output by default.

 

 

 

 

 

3.6.2Design Notes

The drive strength for GPIO[15:14] is limited to 8 mA, while GPIO [13:0] can output up to 16 mA. When used for driving high current devices such as LEDs or relays, make sure to place current-limiting resistor; else there could be permanent damage to the driver of the IXP43X network processors.

It is recommended that a 10-KΩpull-up resistor be used when a GPIO port is configured as an input and not being used.

3.7USB Interface

There are two USBV2.0 Host Controllers in the IXP43X network processors. It supports Low-Speed, 1.5 Mbps, Full-Speed, 12 Mbps, High-Speed, 480 Mbps rate and interface is EHCI compliant.

Supported features are:

Host function

Low-speed interface

Full-speed interface

High-speed interface

EHCI register interface

UTMI+ Level 2 Compliant

The following is a partial list of features that are not supported:

Device function

OTG function

 

Intel® IXP43X Product Line of Network Processors

April 2007

HDG

Document Number: 316844; Revision: 001US

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Intel IXP43X manual USB Interface, Design Notes, Gpio Signal Recommendations