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Newtham
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6 years ago
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MAX V GPIO State at Power-Off

If a MAX V has all of its voltage switched off, will the GPIO pins be in tristate? (Not during power-up or power-down, but when it's completely off.) I ask because I am using the MAX V to control a...
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    Rahul_S_Intel1
    6 years ago

    If no power given to the device, the Impedance will be undefined, why I am saying so each IO pin can be considered active component and can be act as energy storage device. In my point of view , it is not safe to give to power off only Max 5 in a board.

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Rahul_S_Intel1
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6 years ago

If no power given to the device, the Impedance will be undefined, why I am saying so each IO pin can be considered active component and can be act as energy storage device. In my point of view , it is not safe to give to power off only Max 5 in a board.