GPIO is widely used for housing various application needs such as video processing or image
acquisition, etc. It supports up to 50MHz data rate using a reliable cable connection. Each data pin
on the GPIO is connected to an extra protection circuit made up of two clamping diodes and one
serial resistor.
shows the protection circuitry that is on each of the 36 data pins on the
40-pin header.
Figure 3-2 Protection circuit for data pins on GPIO
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3.3
3.3
RS-232
Interface
RS-232 Interface
This section describes the RS-232 interface on the ICB-HSMC.
The ICB provides a full featured RS-232 interface using a Maxim 3238 chip with a guaranteed data
rate of 250 Kbps.