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General Purpose I/O Pins (GPIO)

The general structure of GPIO pins has not changed since the early days of the 6821 I/O controller. A number of pins are provided that can either be input or output. A data direction register sets the direction on a per-pin basis. If an output, data comes from a data register. Interrupt polarity and masks are available on a per-pin basis for received events. A master interrupt enable mask is also provided.

The slide illustrates the schematic and the Verilog RTL for such a device. All of the registers are accessed by the host using programmed I/O.


26: (C) 2008-11, DJ Greaves, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.