18F4431 - DIP chip
I have made:
TRISC = '11111111' (all pins IN) and applied 10K pullup resistors to RC<7:0>.
The sole modules involving RC6 (AFAIK), SSPCON and RCSTA, = '00000000'.
My problem:
Reading PORTC is correct for all pins but RC6 which always reads '0'.
I measured the voltage at the pin, getting 0.28 V.
Also checked Silicon revision 3 to no avail.
Tested with two different chips.
What I am overlooking here?
Agustín Tomás
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there is.
Sounds like you have a short on your board. With a 10k pullup and the pin set to input you should have 5V. Can you remove the chip and measure the voltage to see if it is a short?
Mike.
Checked already, Mike. No short.
All peripherals except Power PWM control are disabled so I do not know what else to do. Wherever that pin is alluded to in the datasheet, it is shown involved with the EUSART only.
Any further idea will be welcome.
Gracias.
Last edited by atferrari; 25th May 2009 at 10:10 AM.
Agustín Tomás
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there is.
Can you chop your code down to a bare minimum that still shows the same behavior and post it here?
Mike.
Hola Mike again,
It was not a short but an open circuit!. The pin was floating, not seeing the 5V. I started to suspect that when found that for the first two seconds it was reading a 1 and then a 0.
Measured the voltage directly on the pin, with the micro in RESET and found that.
I just regret the so many hours checking software.
Gracias for replying.
Agustín Tomás
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there is.
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