Datasheet

PIC16F631/677/685/687/689/690
DS41262E-page 60 © 2008 Microchip Technology Inc.
4.2 Additional Pin Functions
Every PORTA pin on this device family has an
interrupt-on-change option and a weak pull-up option.
RA0 also has an Ultra Low-Power Wake-up option. The
next three sections describe these functions.
4.2.1 ANSEL AND ANSELH REGISTERS
The ANSEL and ANSELH registers are used to disable
the input buffers of I/O pins, which allow analog voltages
to be applied to those pins without causing excessive
current. Setting the ANSx bit of a corresponding pin will
cause all digital reads of that pin to return ‘0’ and also
permit analog functions of that pin to operate correctly.
The state of the ANSx bit has no effect on the digital
output function of its corresponding pin. A pin with the
TRISx bit clear and ANSx bit set will operate as a digital
output, together with the analog input function of that
pin. Pins with the ANSx bit set always read ‘0’, which
can cause unexpected behavior when executing read
or write operations on the port due to the
read-modify-write sequence of all such operations.
4.2.2 WEAK PULL-UPS
Each of the PORTA pins, except RA3, has an
individually configurable internal weak pull-up. Control
bits WPUAx enable or disable each pull-up. Refer to
Register 4-4. Each weak pull-up is automatically turned
off when the port pin is configured as an output. The
pull-ups are disabled on a Power-on Reset by the
RABPU
bit of the OPTION register. A weak pull-up is
automatically enabled for RA3 when configured as
MCLR
and disabled when RA3 is an I/O. There is no
software control of the MCLR
pull-up.
4.2.3 INTERRUPT-ON-CHANGE
Each PORTA pin is individually configurable as an
interrupt-on-change pin. Control bits IOCAx enable or
disable the interrupt function for each pin. Refer to
Register 4-6. The interrupt-on-change is disabled on a
Power-on Reset.
For enabled interrupt-on-change pins, the values are
compared with the old value latched on the last read of
PORTA. The ‘mismatch’ outputs of the last read are
OR’d together to set the PORTA Change Interrupt Flag
bit (RABIF) in the INTCON register (Register 2-6).
This interrupt can wake the device from Sleep. The
user, in the Interrupt Service Routine, clears the
interrupt by:
a) Any read or write of PORTA. This will end the
mismatch condition, then,
b) Clear the flag bit RABIF.
A mismatch condition will continue to set flag bit RABIF.
Reading PORTA will end the mismatch condition and
allow flag bit RABIF to be cleared. The latch holding the
last read value is not affected by a MCLR
nor BOR
Reset. After these Resets, the RABIF flag will continue
to be set if a mismatch is present.
Note: If a change on the I/O pin should occur
when the read operation is being executed
(start of the Q2 cycle), then the RABIF
interrupt flag may not get set.