Mitsubishi DS5000TK, DS907x SIP Parallel Port Output Buffers Ports 1, 2, and 3 ±2, Input Function

USER'S GUIDE

least significant eight bits of address and data. When 1's are output on Port 2 for address bits during these cycles, strong current drivers are employed. The information in the Port 2 SFR latch is unchanged during these cycles.

Port 0 also employs strong output drivers for 1's during these cycles. However, a value of 0FFH will be written to the Port 0 SFR latch, destroying any previous informa- tion which was written into it.

PARALLEL PORT OUTPUT BUFFERS (PORTS 1, 2, AND 3) Figure 12±2
	VCC
DELAY	P1
= 2Tclk
VCC
P2	PORT
	PIN
Q FROM
PORT LATCH
VCC
P3	POWER
	DOWN
INTERNAL
DATA
READ PORT
PIN

INPUT FUNCTION

Any port pin can be used as a general purpose input by simply writing a logic 1 into the associated SFR latch. Ports 1, 2, and 3 have weak pull±ups, so they will go to a logic 1 state. However, the pull±up is sufficiently weak that an external circuit can easily overdrive it with a logic

0.Thus an output of 1 and an input are the same state. After setting the latch to a 1, the port can be read. If an external circuit drives high, reading the port will show a 1. If the external circuit drives low, the internal pull±up will be overcome and the pin will be low. Thus the read operation will see a logic 0. Port 0 is different in that it has no pull±up. Thus writing a 1 into the Port 0 latch causes the pin to tri±state. An external pull±up should be used. In the input state, the external circuit would overdrive the external pull±up on Port 0.

It can be seen in Figure 12±1 that there are actually two ways to read a port pin. The CPU can read the latch or

the pin. These need not have identical values. A normal read instruction will read the state of the pin. It will nei- ther read, nor modify the state of the latch. For example, if software writes the latch of Port 1 with an FFh, the port will output all high values, and also be configured as an input. If an external circuit pulls down the lower four bits, a read instruction would see F0h. The latch would still contain FFh. If the external circuit were to release the four lower bits, the port would return to the value of FFh.

There are a selected number of instructions that actually read the latch instead of the pin. These are called Read± Modify±Write instructions. These instructions read the state of the latch, possibly modify it, then write the result back to the latch. The Read±Modify±Write instructions are listed below.

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