Thank you for all your advices.

There shouldn't be any problem if i use a bidirectionnal voltage shifter ?

2015-03-10 20:17 GMT+01:00 Harvey White <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:02:35 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >You'll have to take steps to scale the voltage down to the BBB's 3.3 V
> I/O level. The best way to do this is with dedicated voltage-level
> translator ICs. But depending on your application, you might be able to get
> away with current-limiting resistors in series from the 74xx output to the
> GPIO (you'll have to do some work to find the right value), and with the
> right 74xx selection, you won't need to put anything between BBB outputs
> and 74xx inputs (that will depend on what the 74xx Vhi threshold is).
>
> It's reasonable to do that when you have a 5 volt system with a number
> of lines, and can't substitute the part (a 5 volt display, for
> instance).
>
> I would NOT use current limiting resistors, I don't thing that they
> solve the problem.
>
> As I remember it, and they could have changed things and this is not
> as much of a problem now, the way that the pin is internally
> constructed involves back biased diodes which connect to the power
> supply rails.  These back biased diodes, if forward biased, make an
> SCR, which once turned on, stays on until the power is interrupted.
>
> The voltage causes these SCR's to become functional, then fire.  The
> SCR then uses the internal power supply to provide enough energy to
> destroy the I/O structure in the chip.
>
> Current limiting resistors do not help, because it's not the current
> coming in that does the damage, it's the relative voltage level.
>
> This is called a "parasitic SCR" and has destroyed chips in the past.
> Whether or not it is a problem still, I do not know.
>
> You'd want to have chips (to connect the 5 volts to) that have 5 volt
> tolerant inputs.  These processors do not.
>
> Better to use 3.3 volt logic everywhere possible, and level translate
> only when talking to a 5 volt system that cannot be redesigned.
>
> Talking, in this case, means signals going either direction.
>
> >
> >Or maybe you can use 3.3 V 74xx variants.
>
> This would be my preferred solution, yes.
>
> Harvey
>
> >
> >> On Mar 10, 2015, at 10:50 , [email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I come from the world of sotware engineering and I am a newcomer
> (nearly) to the world of electronic. I would like to know if it was
> possible to interface a 74LS02 to the BeagleBone Black.
> >>
> >> I plan to connect Vcc and Vss of the 74LS02 to the 5V Vdd output and
> Gnd of the Beagle and use the GPIO pins to command the logic inputs. My
> problem is that I don't know if I can plug the 74LS02 without components
> such as resistors, in order to limit the current flowing through
> components. I don't want to damage the board.
> >>
> >> The result of all the logic operations should be gathered by some GPIO
> pins configured as inputs.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to proceed that way ?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for your answers
> >>
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