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4.2 PORTB and the TRISB Register This interrupt can wake the device from Sleep. The
user, in the Interrupt Service Routine, can clear the
PORTB is an 8-bit wide, bidirectional port. The corre- interrupt in the following manner:
sponding data direction register is TRISB. Setting a
TRISB bit (= 1) will make the corresponding PORTB a) Any read or write of PORTB. This will end the
pin an input (i.e., put the corresponding output driver in mismatch condition.
a High-Impedance mode). Clearing a TRISB bit (= 0) b) Clear flag bit RBIF.
will make the corresponding PORTB pin an output (i.e., A mismatch condition will continue to set flag bit RBIF.
put the contents of the output latch on the selected pin). Reading PORTB will end the mismatch condition and
Three pins of PORTB are multiplexed with the In-Circuit allow flag bit RBIF to be cleared.
Debugger and Low-Voltage Programming function: The interrupt-on-change feature is recommended for
RB3/PGM, RB6/PGC and RB7/PGD. The alternate wake-up on key depression operation and operations
functions of these pins are described in Section 14.0 where PORTB is only used for the interrupt-on-change
“Special Features of the CPU”. feature. Polling of PORTB is not recommended while
Each of the PORTB pins has a weak internal pull-up. A using the interrupt-on-change feature.
single control bit can turn on all the pull-ups. This is per- This interrupt-on-mismatch feature, together with soft-
formed by clearing bit RBPU (OPTION_REG<7>). The ware configurable pull-ups on these four pins, allow
weak pull-up is automatically turned off when the port easy interface to a keypad and make it possible for
pin is configured as an output. The pull-ups are wake-up on key depression. Refer to the application
disabled on a Power-on Reset. note, AN552, “Implementing Wake-up on Key Stroke”
(DS00552).
FIGURE 4-4: BLOCK DIAGRAM OF RB0/INT is an external interrupt input pin and is
RB3:RB0 PINS configured using the INTEDG bit (OPTION_REG<6>).
VDD
RBPU(2)
RB0/INT is discussed in detail in Section 14.11.1 “INT
Weak Interrupt”.
P Pull-up
Data Latch
Data Bus
D Q FIGURE 4-5: BLOCK DIAGRAM OF
WR Port
I/O pin(1) RB7:RB4 PINS
CK
VDD
TRIS Latch
RBPU(2) Weak
D Q P Pull-up
TTL
WR TRIS Input Data Latch
CK Buffer Data Bus
D Q
I/O pin(1)
WR Port CK
RD TRIS
TRIS Latch
Q D D Q

RD Port WR TRIS TTL

EN CK Input
Buffer ST
RB0/INT Buffer
RB3/PGM
RD TRIS
Latch
Schmitt Trigger RD Port
Buffer Q D
RD Port
Note 1: I/O pins have diode protection to VDD and VSS. EN Q1
2: To enable weak pull-ups, set the appropriate TRIS Set RBIF
bit(s) and clear the RBPU bit (OPTION_REG<7>).

Q D
Four of the PORTB pins, RB7:RB4, have an interrupt- RD Port
From other
on-change feature. Only pins configured as inputs can RB7:RB4 pins EN
cause this interrupt to occur (i.e., any RB7:RB4 pin Q3
configured as an output is excluded from the interrupt- RB7:RB6
on-change comparison). The input pins (of RB7:RB4) In Serial Programming Mode
are compared with the old value latched on the last Note 1: I/O pins have diode protection to VDD and VSS.
read of PORTB. The “mismatch” outputs of RB7:RB4 2: To enable weak pull-ups, set the appropriate TRIS
are OR’ed together to generate the RB port change bit(s) and clear the RBPU bit (OPTION_REG<7>).
interrupt with flag bit RBIF (INTCON<0>).

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TABLE 4-3: PORTB FUNCTIONS
Name Bit# Buffer Function
RB0/INT bit 0 TTL/ST(1) Input/output pin or external interrupt input. Internal software programmable
weak pull-up.
RB1 bit 1 TTL Input/output pin. Internal software programmable weak pull-up.
RB2 bit 2 TTL Input/output pin. Internal software programmable weak pull-up.
(3)
RB3/PGM bit 3 TTL Input/output pin or programming pin in LVP mode. Internal software
programmable weak pull-up.
RB4 bit 4 TTL Input/output pin (with interrupt-on-change). Internal software programmable
weak pull-up.
RB5 bit 5 TTL Input/output pin (with interrupt-on-change). Internal software programmable
weak pull-up.
RB6/PGC bit 6 TTL/ST(2) Input/output pin (with interrupt-on-change) or in-circuit debugger pin.
Internal software programmable weak pull-up. Serial programming clock.
RB7/PGD bit 7 TTL/ST(2) Input/output pin (with interrupt-on-change) or in-circuit debugger pin.
Internal software programmable weak pull-up. Serial programming data.
Legend: TTL = TTL input, ST = Schmitt Trigger input
Note 1: This buffer is a Schmitt Trigger input when configured as the external interrupt.
2: This buffer is a Schmitt Trigger input when used in Serial Programming mode or in-circuit debugger.
3: Low-Voltage ICSP Programming (LVP) is enabled by default which disables the RB3 I/O function. LVP
must be disabled to enable RB3 as an I/O pin and allow maximum compatibility to the other 28-pin and
40-pin mid-range devices.

TABLE 4-4: SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH PORTB

Value on
Value on:
Address Name Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 all other
POR, BOR
Resets
06h, 106h PORTB RB7 RB6 RB5 RB4 RB3 RB2 RB1 RB0 xxxx xxxx uuuu uuuu
86h, 186h TRISB PORTB Data Direction Register 1111 1111 1111 1111
81h, 181h OPTION_REG RBPU INTEDG T0CS T0SE PSA PS2 PS1 PS0 1111 1111 1111 1111
Legend: x = unknown, u = unchanged. Shaded cells are not used by PORTB.

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4.3 PORTC and the TRISC Register FIGURE 4-7: PORTC BLOCK DIAGRAM
(PERIPHERAL OUTPUT
PORTC is an 8-bit wide, bidirectional port. The corre-
OVERRIDE) RC<4:3>
sponding data direction register is TRISC. Setting a
TRISC bit (= 1) will make the corresponding PORTC Port/Peripheral Select(2)
pin an input (i.e., put the corresponding output driver in
a High-Impedance mode). Clearing a TRISC bit (= 0) Peripheral Data Out
0
will make the corresponding PORTC pin an output (i.e., VDD
Data Bus
put the contents of the output latch on the selected pin). D Q P
WR Port 1
PORTC is multiplexed with several peripheral functions CK Q
(Table 4-5). PORTC pins have Schmitt Trigger input Data Latch
buffers. I/O
D Q pin(1)
When the I2C module is enabled, the PORTC<4:3>
WR TRIS
pins can be configured with normal I2C levels, or with CK Q N
SMBus levels, by using the CKE bit (SSPSTAT<6>). TRIS Latch
VSS
When enabling peripheral functions, care should be
taken in defining TRIS bits for each PORTC pin. Some RD TRIS
Schmitt
peripherals override the TRIS bit to make a pin an Trigger
output, while other peripherals override the TRIS bit to Peripheral
OE(3) Q D
make a pin an input. Since the TRIS bit override is in Schmitt
Trigger
effect while the peripheral is enabled, read-modify- EN with
write instructions (BSF, BCF, XORWF) with TRISC as the RD Port
SMBus
0 Levels
destination, should be avoided. The user should refer SSP Input
to the corresponding peripheral section for the correct
TRIS bit settings. 1

FIGURE 4-6:
Port/Peripheral Select(2)
CKE
PORTC BLOCK DIAGRAM SSPSTAT<6>
(PERIPHERAL OUTPUT
Note 1: I/O pins have diode protection to VDD and VSS.
OVERRIDE) RC<2:0>, 2: Port/Peripheral Select signal selects between port data
RC<7:5> and peripheral output.
3: Peripheral OE (Output Enable) is only activated if
Peripheral Select is active.

Peripheral Data Out

0 VDD
Data Bus
D Q
P
WR Port CK Q 1

Data Latch
I/O
D Q pin(1)
WR TRIS CK Q N
TRIS Latch
VSS
RD TRIS
Schmitt
Trigger
Peripheral
OE(3) Q D

EN
RD Port

Peripheral Input

Note 1: I/O pins have diode protection to VDD and VSS.

2: Port/Peripheral Select signal selects between port
data and peripheral output.
3: Peripheral OE (Output Enable) is only activated if
Peripheral Select is active.

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TABLE 4-5: PORTC FUNCTIONS
Name Bit# Buffer Type Function
RC0/T1OSO/T1CKI bit 0 ST Input/output port pin or Timer1 oscillator output/Timer1 clock input.
RC1/T1OSI/CCP2 bit 1 ST Input/output port pin or Timer1 oscillator input or Capture2 input/
Compare2 output/PWM2 output.
RC2/CCP1 bit 2 ST Input/output port pin or Capture1 input/Compare1 output/
PWM1 output.
RC3/SCK/SCL bit 3 ST RC3 can also be the synchronous serial clock for both SPI and
I2C modes.
RC4/SDI/SDA bit 4 ST RC4 can also be the SPI data in (SPI mode) or data I/O (I2C mode).
RC5/SDO bit 5 ST Input/output port pin or Synchronous Serial Port data output.
RC6/TX/CK bit 6 ST Input/output port pin or USART asynchronous transmit or
synchronous clock.
RC7/RX/DT bit 7 ST Input/output port pin or USART asynchronous receive or
synchronous data.
Legend: ST = Schmitt Trigger input

TABLE 4-6: SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH PORTC

Value on
Value on:
Address Name Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 all other
POR, BOR
Resets
07h PORTC RC7 RC6 RC5 RC4 RC3 RC2 RC1 RC0 xxxx xxxx uuuu uuuu
87h TRISC PORTC Data Direction Register 1111 1111 1111 1111
Legend: x = unknown, u = unchanged

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4.4 PORTD and TRISD Registers FIGURE 4-8: PORTD BLOCK DIAGRAM
(IN I/O PORT MODE)
Note: PORTD and TRISD are not implemented
on the 28-pin devices. Data Data Latch
Bus D Q
PORTD is an 8-bit port with Schmitt Trigger input
WR I/O pin(1)
buffers. Each pin is individually configurable as an input Port
CK
or output.
PORTD can be configured as an 8-bit wide TRIS Latch
microprocessor port (Parallel Slave Port) by setting D Q
control bit, PSPMODE (TRISE<4>). In this mode, the WR
input buffers are TTL. TRIS Schmitt
CK
Trigger
Input
Buffer

RD
TRIS

Q D

ENEN

RD Port

Note 1: I/O pins have protection diodes to VDD and VSS.

TABLE 4-7: PORTD FUNCTIONS

Name Bit# Buffer Type Function
RD0/PSP0 bit 0 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 0.
RD1/PSP1 bit 1 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 1.
RD2/PSP2 bit2 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 2.
RD3/PSP3 bit 3 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 3.
RD4/PSP4 bit 4 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 4.
RD5/PSP5 bit 5 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 5.
(1)
RD6/PSP6 bit 6 ST/TTL Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 6.
RD7/PSP7 bit 7 ST/TTL(1) Input/output port pin or Parallel Slave Port bit 7.
Legend: ST = Schmitt Trigger input, TTL = TTL input
Note 1: Input buffers are Schmitt Triggers when in I/O mode and TTL buffers when in Parallel Slave Port mode.

TABLE 4-8: SUMMARY OF REGISTERS ASSOCIATED WITH PORTD

Value on
Value on:
Address Name Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 all other
POR, BOR
Resets
08h PORTD RD7 RD6 RD5 RD4 RD3 RD2 RD1 RD0 xxxx xxxx uuuu uuuu
88h TRISD PORTD Data Direction Register 1111 1111 1111 1111
89h TRISE IBF OBF IBOV PSPMODE — PORTE Data Direction Bits 0000 -111 0000 -111
Legend: x = unknown, u = unchanged, - = unimplemented, read as ‘0’. Shaded cells are not used by PORTD.

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