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duart28/design-spec: minor fixes in the so-far-written section
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
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1 FreeCalypso DUART28 Adapter
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2 Board design specification
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4 1. What it is and why it is desired
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6 Under our FreeCalypso umbrella we have a family of hardware products based on
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7 the Calypso chipset from Texas Instruments. The Calypso chip has two UARTs,
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8 one with TxD & RxD data leads plus RTS & CTS flow control, and the other with
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9 TxD & RxD data leads only. There is also a convention whereby some Calypso
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10 GPIOs are defined to be additional modem control signals and associated with
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11 the Modem UART (the one that has RTS & CTS flow control in addition to
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12 TxD & RxD), thus the result is one UART with a near-complete set of modem
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13 control signals and one UART with data leads only.
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15 The convention established in FreeCalypso is that all of our Calypso development
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16 boards bring out both Calypso UARTs in their native form, which is 2.8V native
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17 logic levels, tolerant of 3.3V but not any higher voltages. In order to connect
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18 these UARTs to a PC or laptop serving as the development host, a separate USB
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19 to low-voltage UART adapter board is used, preferably one that puts both UARTs
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20 (two ttyUSBx devices) behind a single USB device. Our USB to dual UART
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21 converter chip of choice is FT2232D; this chip has been chosen over various
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22 competitors because it provides two UART channels (ttyUSBx devices) in one USB
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23 device, because it supports non-standard serial baud rates on both channels,
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24 allowing us to use GSM-specific high baud rates of 203125, 406250 and 812500
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25 bps, and because it supports the full set of modem control signals like one
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26 would find on an old-fashioned RS-232 port.
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28 Since we got our first FCDEV3B boards built in 2017 and up until the present,
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29 we've been using FT2232D breakout boards made by PLDkit as our USB to dual UART
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30 adapter:
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32 http://pldkit.com/other/ft2232d-module
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34 These generic FT2232D adapters work quite well for our current purposes, but
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35 now we have several reasons for desiring our own custom-built adapter to
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36 replace them, detailed below.
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38 1.1. Desire for custom interface pinout
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40 In FreeCalypso we have the following convention: all FC hardware products that
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41 bring out both Calypso UARTs do so by way of a single 10-pin (2x5) 2.54 mm
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42 header in a fixed pinout given below. This convention was started with
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43 FCDEV3B, our first FC hw product, and is now being continued with MMTB1 and
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44 Caramel2 boards. Our standardized DUART header pinout is as follows:
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46 Header pin Calypso signal
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47 1 GND
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48 2 GND
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49 3 TX_IRDA
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50 4 TX_MODEM
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51 5 RX_IRDA
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52 6 RX_MODEM
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53 7 GPIO2_DCD
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54 8 RTS_MODEM
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55 9 GPIO3_DTR
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56 10 CTS_MODEM
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57
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58 Pins 7 and 9 were originally left unused (they are unconnected on FCDEV3B), but
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59 they have been assigned as DCD and DTR (from the host's perspective) starting
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60 with MMTB1. Note that while DCD and DTR in the table above are named from the
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61 host's perspective, all Calypso signals ending with _MODEM or _IRDA are from
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62 the chip's perspective, i.e., the opposite.
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63
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64 When we use FT2232D breakout boards from PLDkit as our USB to DUART adapter, we
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65 use a custom hand-made ribbon cable with crimp terminations: a 10-wire ribbon
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66 is used, the full ribbon runs intact in the main body of the cable, but toward
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67 the FT2232D adapter board the ribbon is split in two, with 7 wires going to the
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68 A side of PLDkit's breakout board and with 3 wires going to the B side. Each
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69 of the two subribbons (both the 7-wire one and the 3-wire one) gets terminated
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70 onto a 15-position female connector, with the two resulting 15-pin connectors
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71 mating with the two 15-pin single-row headers located on the two sides of
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72 PLDkit's breakout board.
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73
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74 This current solution is much better than manually connecting each wire
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75 individually: with connectors being solid pieces rather than individual wires,
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76 a setup can be very easily taken down and then put back together, which is
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77 absolutely essential for our mode of usage. But the downside of this approach
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78 is that once our two 15-position female connectors mate with PLDkit's headers,
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79 there is no way to make a separate connection to other signals which are not
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80 covered by our basic 10-wire set. This limitation is becoming problematic for
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81 two reasons:
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82
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83 1) Our upcoming Caramel2 board will have the same 10-pin DUART header as FCDEV3B
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84 and MMTB1 (with DCD & DTR present like on MMTB1), but it will also have an
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85 additional RI modem control output on another Calypso GPIO accessible on the
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86 general expansion interface header. There is no room to squeeze this extra RI
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87 signal into our standardized 10-pin DUART interface, but this extra signal is
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88 rarely needed. The compromise solution currently being pursued is that the
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89 main 10-wire ribbon will connect all UART signals (both UARTs) with the
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90 exception of RI, and those who need RI should be able to connect it with a
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91 separate individual wire, connecting to the GPIO1 pin on the general expansion
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92 interface header on the Caramel2 side. But if we use PLDkit breakout boards
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93 with our current ribbon cables with crimp terminations, there will be no way to
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94 connect this extra RI wire to the FT2232D adapter board when the big 15-pin
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95 connector blocks the entire header.
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96
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97 2) PLDkit's FT2232D breakout boards bring out USB 5V on one of their pins, and
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98 this auxiliary 5V output is useful in some applications. We have one upcoming
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99 application where this auxiliary 5V will be used to exercise the Calypso+Iota
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100 chipset's VCHG boot mode, also on the upcoming Caramel2 board - but we get into
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101 the same problem of the PLDkit board header pin becoming inaccessible when our
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102 crimp-terminated ribbon cables are used.
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103
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104 If we replace the generic PLDkit breakout with our own custom FreeCalypso USB
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105 to dual UART adapter board, we can easily solve these problems by implementing
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106 our own custom header pinouts. The new DUART28 adapter board covered by the
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107 present design spec will bring out 3 headers as follows:
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108
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109 * One 10-pin header carrying TxD, RxD, RTS, CTS, DTR and DCD for UART 0 and
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110 just TxD & RxD for UART 1, in a pinout exactly matching our standardized
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111 FreeCalypso DUART interface;
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112
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113 * One 3-pin header carrying UART 0 auxiliary modem control inputs DSR and RI,
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114 plus a ground pin;
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115
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116 * One 2-pin header bringing out USB 5V and GND, for auxiliary uses.
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117
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118 1.2. 3.3V vs. 2.8V logic levels
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119
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120 Calypso I/O pins have native 2.8V logic levels, but they are specified as being
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121 tolerant of 3.3V. They do have internal clamping diodes to the Calypso chip's
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122 2.8V V-IO rail, but their forward drop voltage is right around 0.5 V, thus if
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123 external inputs are at 0.5 V above V-IO (practically meaning 3.3V inputs), no
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124 significant current flows through these clamping diodes.
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125
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126 When we use a raw FT2232D breakout board as our USB to FreeCalypso DUART
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127 adapter, we are connecting the FT2232D chip's 3.3V outputs directly to Calypso
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128 inputs; this arrangement has been working well for us since 2017, but a more
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129 proper 2.8V DUART adapter is desirable for a few reasons:
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130
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131 * When the Calypso+Iota chipset enters superdeep sleep (our shorthand term for
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132 Calypso deep sleep combined with Iota ABB sleep mode), the chipset's VRIO
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133 regulator (the one that produces the 2.8V V-IO rail) switches into sleep mode,
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134 which has much looser regulation than in the regular Active mode. In this
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135 condition external 3.3V can feed into the V-IO rail through pull-up resistors
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136 and pull the rail itself a little higher than where the chipset's own regulators
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137 would have it, which is certainly not desirable. If UART inputs to the Calypso
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138 board are driven with 2.8V logic levels rather than 3.3V, this problem is not
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139 expected to occur.
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140
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141 * If we are going to build a custom FreeCalypso DUART adapter for other reasons,
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142 it is only proper to make it 2.8V native rather than 3.3V - after all, our
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143 adapter is highly specific to Calypso applications, not generic, and Calypso
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144 has native 2.8V I/O.
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145
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146 * We have a competitor: Sysmocom folks use CP2105 adapters (mv-uart adapter
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147 board and other integrated designs) instead of our FT2232D, and their
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148 CP2105-based designs operate at native 2.8V logic levels, no 3.3V. For
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149 political reasons it is important to be no worse than the competition, giving
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150 us one more reason to go for native 2.8V.
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151
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152 Because FT2232D I/O (unlike CP2105, FT232R and many other chips that aren't
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153 suitable for other reasons) cannot go below 3.3V, making an FT2232D-based
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154 adapter put out 2.8V logic levels requires inserting an extra level shifter
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155 after FT2232D outputs - we shall use an LVC buffer for this purpose.
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156
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157 1.3. Partial power-down considerations
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158
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159 The following two corner cases need to be considered, as each can be a trouble
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160 spot:
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161
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162 1) When the USB to DUART adapter is connected to a host computer and thus has
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163 USB power present, but the connected Calypso device is in the switched-off
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164 state in the Iota VRPC sense (a condition that occurs all the time in normal
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165 operation, e.g., whenever you are running fc-loadtool and waiting to press the
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166 PWON button on the board), current can flow from USB DUART adapter outputs into
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167 powered-down Calypso chip inputs. This current flow cannot be eliminated
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168 without putting LVC or similar buffers on the Calypso board side, but we need
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169 to be mindful of this current and we need to limit it.
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170
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171 2) When a Calypso device is connected to the USB DUART adapter, the Calypso
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172 device is up and running (VRPC Active state), but there is no USB host
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173 connected, current can flow from Calypso outputs into a powered-down FT2232D
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174 (or other front-end chips) in the USB DUART adapter. With our current raw
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175 FT2232D-to-Calypso arrangement we have about 5 mA of current flowing per pin
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176 under the described condition, which is a little too much.
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177
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178 If we replace the generic FT2232D breakout with our own custom adapter board
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179 design, we can solve the second partial power-down problem (the case of Calypso
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180 on, but no USB host) by inserting LVC buffers in front of FT2232D inputs -
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181 these LVC buffers are fully specified for partial power-down applications and
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182 have very small Ioff leakage current.