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PIN_A4 stopped working! in PIC 16F870/16F876

 
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digitalfreak



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PIN_A4 stopped working! in PIC 16F870/16F876
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:36 pm     Reply with quote

Thankyou all for your support.

I have been working on a project from past few months, with the help of few folks here, everything was working good untill yesterday.

suddenly, PIN_A4 (RA4) is not working, when i do
"output_high(PIN_A4)", I couldnot see high at PIN A4, all other pins are working fine, I can program them good, even tested generating PWMS on CCP1 and CCP2.

(please see the code below)

I can see low and high on RA0 and RA1 respectively, but nothing on RA4


Changed breadboards, Changed PICS (used few 16F870 & 16F876)

The only thing I have not tried is different programmer - (I don't have chance, I have only one). I am using PICSTART Plus and CCS C compiler.


My only guess is something like settings in the software/ programmer - MPLAB????

What do you think the problem could be???

Any suggestions are welcome...

below is the code I used to test high on PIN A4





Code:
#include <16f870.h>
#device adc=16
#use delay(clock=20000000, restart_wdt)
#fuses NOWDT, HS, PUT, NOPROTECT, BROWNOUT, NOLVP, NOCPD, NOWRT
#include <math.h>

#use fast_io(A)
#use fast_io(B)
#use fast_io(C)

void main(void) {
   
   set_tris_a(0b00000000);                              // Set porta as output   

   setup_adc(ADC_CLOCK_INTERNAL);                        // Works for up to 20 Mhz clock speed
   setup_adc_ports(NO_ANALOGS);                        // None Analog

   while(TRUE){                                    // Infinite loop
            
      output_low(PIN_A0);
      delay_us(500);
      
      output_high(PIN_A1);
      delay_us(500);
      
      output_high(PIN_A4);
        delay_us(500);

   }
}


Thanks a lot...
digitalfreak



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:09 pm     Reply with quote

sorry to bother ... never mind, for the time I typed here - I should have read the manual....

atleast hoping it will be useful for somebody else....

RA4 - is open drain (open collector) - it can only pull low but not high.

if it needs to pull high connect a pullup resistor from RA4 to vdd - ready to go...


thanks to "PCMProgrammer"...
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