
Termination of Unused Pins
Intel® Quark™ SE Microcontroller C1000
June 2017
Platform Design Guide
Document Number: 334715-004EN
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Alternatively, unused GPIO pins could be terminated by enabling their internal pull-
up resistors, thus connecting them to VCC directly. Pull-up resistors must be
enabled under bootloader configuration to ensure they will become active during
boot up.
Figure 29. GPIO Pin Termination Example (External Pull-Down Resistor)
GPIO_9_SPI1_M_MISO
B6
10 kΩ
R
P D
Intel® Quark
SE
Microcontroller
C1000
BGA 144 Package
14.2.2
Sensor Subsystem SPI Pin Termination
Unused Sensor Subsystem SPI pins SPI0_SS_MISO (ball A10) and SPI1_SS_MISO
(ball A8) could be terminated by connecting them to VSS through, for example, a 10
kΩ pull-down resistor.
illustrates the termination of the SPI1_SS_MISO
pin. Any other SPI pins could be left unconnected as they initiate as outputs, or they
could also be pulled down to VSS to maintain their LOW states during power up
cycle.