Rainbow Electronics ATmega8HVD - Manual (Page 63)

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ATmega4HVD/8HVD
If PORTxn is written logic one when the pin is configured as an output pin, the port pin is
driven high (one). If PORTxn is written logic zero when the pin is configured as an output pin,
the port pin is driven low (zero).
14.2.2 Toggling the Pin
Writing a logic one to PINxn toggles the value of PORTxn, independent on the value of
DDRxn. Note that the SBI instruction can be used to toggle one single bit in a port.
14.2.3 Switching Between Input and Output
When switching between tri-state ({DDxn, PORTxn} = 0b00) and output high ({DDxn,
PORTxn} = 0b11), an intermediate state with either pull-up enabled {DDxn, PORTxn} = 0b01)
or output low ({DDxn, PORTxn} = 0b10) must occur. Normally, the pull-up enabled state is fully
acceptable, as a high-impedant environment will not notice the difference between a strong
high driver and a pull-up. If this is not the case, the PUD bit in the MCUCR Register can be set
to disable all pull-ups in all ports.
Switching between input with pull-up and output low generates the same problem. The user
must use either the tri-state ({DDxn, PORTxn} = 0b00) or the output high state ({DDxn,
PORTxn} = 0b11) as an intermediate step.
Table 14-1 summarizes the control signals for the pin value.
14.2.4 Reading the Pin Value
Independent of the setting of Data Direction bit DDxn, the port pin can be read through the
PINxn Register bit. As shown in
Figure 14-2 on page 62 , the PINxn Register bit and the pre-
ceding latch constitute a synchronizer. This is needed to avoid metastability if the physical pin
changes value near the edge of the internal clock, but it also introduces a delay.
Figure 14-3
on page 64 shows a timing diagram of the synchronization when reading an externally applied
pin value. The maximum and minimum propagation delays are denoted t
pd,max
and t
pd,min
respectively.
Table 14-1. Port Pin Configurations
DDxn PORTxn
PUD
(in MCUCR) I/O Pull-up Comment
0 0 X Input No Tri-state (Hi-Z)
0 1 0 Input Yes Pxn will source current if ext. pulled low.
0 1 1 Input No Tri-state (Hi-Z)
1 0 X Output No Output Low (Sink)
1 1 X Output No Output High (Source)