CPSC 359

Raspberry PI GPIO

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Fall 2018

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What is GPIO?

Pins on your Raspberry PI (or more generally, a microcontroller) that have no specific function, but are programmable as either input or output

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You can either configure them as outputs HIGH (3.3v) or LOW (0v).  

You can either configure them as inputs (reads in voltage, returns true if ~3.3v on the pin, false if ~0v on the pin.

How do we interface with GPIO?

Memory Mapped IO!

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// From GPIO.h
#define MMIO_BASE       0x3F000000
#define GPFSEL0         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200000))
#define GPFSEL1         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200004))
#define GPFSEL2         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200008))
#define GPFSEL3         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020000C))
#define GPFSEL4         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200010))
#define GPFSEL5         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200014))
#define GPSET0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020001C))
#define GPSET1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200020))
#define GPCLR0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200028))
#define GPCLR1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020002C))
#define GPLEV0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200034))
#define GPLEV1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200038))
#define GPEDS0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200040))
#define GPEDS1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200044))
#define GPREN0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020004C))
#define GPREN1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200050))
#define GPFEN0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200058))
#define GPFEN1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020005C))
#define GPHEN0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200064))
#define GPHEN1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200068))
#define GPLEN0          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200070))
#define GPLEN1          ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200074))
#define GPAREN0         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020007C))
#define GPAREN1         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200080))
#define GPAFEN0         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200088))
#define GPAFEN1         ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020008C))
#define GPPUD           ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200094))
#define GPPUDCLK0       ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x00200098))
#define GPPUDCLK1       ((volatile unsigned int *)(MMIO_BASE + 0x0020009C))

These are all registers that control certain aspects of the GPIO pins. You modify them by reading and writing to them.

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A few important registers:

  • GPFSEL0-GPFSEL5: Specifies the functions of a GPIO pin. 
  • GPSET0-GPSET1: Sets a high value on a GPIO pin
  • GPCLR0-GPCLR1: Sets a low value on a GPIO pin
  • GPLEV0-GPLEV1: Reads a value from a GPIO pin

GPFSEL0 specifies the function of pins 0-9, GPFSEL1 specifies the function of pins 10-19,

GPFSEL0:

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GPSET0-GPSET1: Sets a high value on a GPIO pin GPSET0 controls GPIO pins 0-31 , GPSET1 controls 32 and above

GPSET0: Bit 0 sets pin 0, Bit 1 sets pin 1

GPSET1: Bit 0 sets pin 32, Bit 1 sets pin 33

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*GPFSEL0 &= ~(0x07 << 21); // Clear out bits 21-23
*GPFSEL0 |= (0x01 << 21); // set bits 21-23 to 0b001

For example, set GPIO 7 as output

*GPCLR0 = (0x1<<7);

For example, set GPIO 7 as low

*GPSET0 = (0x1<<7);

For example, set GPIO 7 as high

Demo

Demo

How to use a breadboard

Demo

How to use a breadboard

How breadboards work: link

How to connect our breadboard: video 

CPSC 359: Pi GPIO

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CPSC 359: Pi GPIO

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