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SubjectRe: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, krishna wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves.
> How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering hardware design
> view and for programming view.
>

Do you mean General Purpose I/O bits on a chip?
^ ^ ^ ^
If so, it is intended to live in the lower 16 megabytes of
an ix86 machine (higher addresses are not decoded), and at one
time, went to the ISA bus, but is now usually a simple
asynchronous bus off from some bridge.

From a hardware perspective, it's slow. From a programming
perspective, you don't care where it is.

> Regards,
> Krishna Chaitanya

Cheers,
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