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Product data sheet Rev. 1 — 3 October 2012 25 of 48
NXP Semiconductors
PCAL9539A
16-bit I
2
C-bus and SMBus low power I/O port with interrupt and reset
8.4 Device current consumption with internal pull-up and pull-down
resistors
The PCAL9539A integrates programmable pull-up and pull-down resistors to eliminate
external components when pins are configured as inputs and pull-up or pull-down
resistors are required (for example, nothing is driving the inputs to the power supply rails.
Since these pull-up and pull-down resistors are internal to the device itself, they contribute
to the current consumption of the device and must be considered in the overall system
design.
The pull-up or pull-down function is selected in registers 48h and 49h, while the resistor is
connected by the enable registers 46h and 47h. The configuration of the resistors is
shown in Figure 6
.
If the resistor is configured as a pull-up, that is, connected to V
DD
, a current will flow from
the V
DD
pin through the resistor to ground when the pin is held LOW. This current will
appear as additional I
DD
upsetting any current consumption measurements.
In the same manner, if the resistor is configured as a pull-down and the pin is held HIGH,
current will flow from the power supply through the pin to the V
SS
pin. While this current
will not be measured as part of I
DD
, one must be mindful of the 200 mA limiting value
through V
SS
.
The pull-up and pull-down resistors are simple resistors and the current is linear with
voltage. The resistance specification for these devices spans from 50 k with a nominal
100 k value. Any current flow through these resistors is additive by the number of pins
held HIGH or LOW and the current can be calculated by Ohm’s law. See Figure 24
for a
graph of supply current versus the number of pull-up resistors.