1. External I/O Control -Using the GPIO Unit to Control the External I/O Devices
Speaker: Yu-Ju Cho 卓余儒
Advisor: Prof. An-Yeu Wu 吳安宇教授
National Taiwan University

2. Goal of This Lab
Understand the operation mechanism of a GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) unit
Design a GPIO and verify the design on the Logic Module
Learn the method of connecting an external I/O device to the ARM Integrator Platform
Employ the GPIO to control the external I/O device.

3. ARM PrimeCell GPIO General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
The GPIO is an AMBA slave module that connects to the APB.
Which has 16 pins organized into two 8-bit ports.

4. The block diagram of GPIO

5. Functional Overview
The data direction register is 8 bits wide, and is programmed to select whether each individual input/output pin is configured as an input or an output.
The data register is 8 bits wide, and is used to read the value input on those pins are configured as input, and program the value output on the output pins.

6. AMBA APB interface
The AMBA APB group narrow-bus peripherals to avoid loading the system bus, and provides an interface using memory-mapped registers.

7. Programmer’s model

8. Memory Address
The base address of the PrimeCell GPIO is not fixed, and may be different for any particular system. But the offset of any particular register is fixed

9. Data Direction Register
GPIOPADDR is the port A data direction register.
Bits set in GPIOPADDR will set the corresponding pin in PORT A to be an output.
Clearing a bit configures the pin to be an input.
GPIOPBDDR is the port B data direction register.
Bits cleared in GPIOPBDDR will set the corresponding pin in PORT B to be an output.
Setting a bit configures the pin to be an input

10. GPIO Operation
Write Operation

11. GPIO Operation (cont.)
Read Operation

12. Connect an external device to the ARM Integrator

13. The Prototyping Grids on LM

14. Pin Names of FPGA

15. Pin Assignment for Port A
GPIO1XPA[0] : LOCATION = Pin_Y24 GPIO1XPA[1] : LOCATION = Pin_AA24 GPIO1XPA[2] : LOCATION = Pin_AB24 GPIO1XPA[3] : LOCATION = Pin_Y23 GPIO1XPA[4] : LOCATION = Pin_AA23 GPIO1XPA[5] : LOCATION = Pin_AB23 GPIO1XPA[6] : LOCATION = Pin_AD23 GPIO1XPA[7] : LOCATION = Pin_AC22

16. Pin Assignment for Port B
GPIO1XPB[0] : LOCATION = Pin_AD22
GPIO1XPB[1] : LOCATION = Pin_AC21
GPIO1XPB[2] : LOCATION = Pin_AD21
GPIO1XPB[3] : LOCATION = Pin_W20
GPIO1XPB[4] : LOCATION = Pin_Y20
GPIO1XPB[5] : LOCATION = Pin_AA20
GPIO1XPB[6] : LOCATION = Pin_AB20
GPIO1XPB[7] : LOCATION = Pin_AC20
GPIO1XPB[8] : LOCATION = Pin_AD20
GPIO1XPB[9] : LOCATION = Pin_Y19
CTRLCLK2[6] : LOCATION = Pin_K18

17. References
ARM PrimeCell General Purpose Input/Output (PL060) Technical Reference Manual (ARM DDI 0142B).
Zong-xin Lin, “Design of an ARM-based System-on-Chip for Real-time QRS Detection in Electrocardiogram,” master thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, June 2003.