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Re: GPIO current?

2005-03-16 by charlesgrenz

Hi,

  I asked the same question about 2 months ago. Just checked the
response and what they said was it can sink and source up to 4ma per pin.

regards,
Charles


--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Knight" <BillK@t...> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:51:00 -0000, Richard wrote:
> 
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "tkreyche" <tkreyche@w...> wrote:
> > 
> > Can someone tell me how much current the GPIO pins can source? Do 
> any 
> > pins drive more than others? 
> > 
> > I've looked all over the docs and archive and don't see an answer. 
> > I'm using the 2138 but I imagine all families are similar.
> > 
> > I was surprised when a friend told he had a PIC that would drive an 
> > LED directly @ 20 mA (but only one at a time).
> > 
> > thanks, Tom
> 
> I emailed Philips with this question some time ago and they sent me a 
> document - unfortunately I cannot find it now :-( but I think it was 
> either 4ma or 7ma.  Not very much anyhow, and it is not in the normal 
> user manuals.
> 
> PICs often have a few pins allocated with this kind of capability.
> 
> Regards,
> Richard.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> I just checked the LPC2114 data sheet yesterday and the drive was 4ma
> for both sink and source.
> 
> Regards
> -Bill Knight
> R O SoftWare &
> http://www.theARMPatch.com

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