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SubjectRe: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.
Hi,

NO, Sorry I wasn't clear.
I am asking about GPIO controllers used in HandHeld Devices.

Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya

linux-os wrote:

> 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
>
>
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