Wouter,

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:39:10 +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> Just a thought that popped up druring some boring solder work. If you
> want to do quick changes of I/O pins on 14-bit core PICs forget about
> the PORT registers, use the TRIS registers. Write 0 to the relevant PORT
> bits, and use pull-ups (as stiff as the PIC can handle, for instance
> 1k). Now write a 0 to the TRIS bit to make the pin low, write a 1 to
> make it input and hence high (due to the pull up). 

I was going to ask why you'd want to do this, then looked at the Subject and realised - it gets over the R-M-W 
problem!  :-)  

The only downside I can see is that using 1k it draws 5mA for each pin that's being pulled high but driven 
low, and if you have a whole 8-bit port like this it's getting to be quite a drain on power, so not a Good 
Thing for a battery-operated device.

Cheers,





Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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