Q.  Should pull-up or pull-down resistors be connected to CMX7163 device GPIO pins (GPIOA, GPIOB, GPIOC, and GPIOD)?
A.  The CMX7163 features flexible GPIO pins that can be independently configured via C-BUS serial interface commands to operate in one of the following modes: CMOS digital output, CMOS digital input or CMOS digital input with bus hold. Bus hold automatically engages a 75kohm internal pull-up or pull-down resistor that reinforces the current logic state of the input signal. As is normally the case, the state of a CMOS digital input will be indeterminate and may increase device supply current when the input’s voltage is not at valid ‘0’ or ‘1’, i.e. when the node voltage is “floating.”

When the CMX7163 is RESET (by asserting its RESETN pin, issuing a C-BUS General RESET or by triggering an internal power on reset) all its GPIO pins are immediately placed in CMOS digital input mode. Any GPIO pins not being pulled either up or down by an external load will be floating. Once a Function Image™ is loaded into the device then all its GPIO pins are placed in CMOS digital input with bus hold.

If user circuits require one or more GPIO pins to be held at a deterministic ’0’ or ‘1’, i.e. not floating after RESET and before the Function Image™ is loaded then that circuit should connect external pull-up or pull-down circuits to such pins.