On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:56 +0100, Joerg Albert wrote:
> I looked closer at the PCB and it turned out that we have a voltage
> divider with two 5.6 kOhm to V_3_3 and GND (R613, R614) and a
> capacitor C496 (!) towards the CPU. The signal at the CPU looked fine
> for a 2.5V TTL.
> The voltage drift seen above is probably caused by the capacitor
> unloading when the CPU pin is driven down.
> 

Curious design choice. Works fine for continuous signals at higher
frequencies, but not here.

> I removed the resitors and replaced C496 by a 1k resistor (to protect
> the CPU pin against shorts). This solved my problem.
> I guess the above schematics was meant to be a cheap TTL level
> conversion 2.5V -> 3.3V.
> 
> Thanks for sending me again to the oscilloscope!

I'm happy it is solved now. Maybe you can document this in relevant
places on the web.

Bas.


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