Solutions to default pull-up state of I/O pins

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by Scribe on Mon Oct 15 06:17:36 MST 2012
Hi guys,

We've noticed that unlike Atmel chips, NXP LPC1200 I/O defaults to using pull-up in reset state and this doesn't play well with our existing circuitry.

We were wondering if there any common practises users of this chip are deploying to design circuits that have a safe reset state when the chip defaults into pull-up? We're both price and space concious and so the use of buffers etc is unideal.

Many thanks

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by jdurand on Tue Oct 16 17:30:38 MST 2012
On any pins that need to be low by default, I just add pull-down resistors of a value sufficient to counter the pull-up in the chip under worst-case conditions.

A board I'm working on today has one 1K pull-down resistor on a high-voltage enable line.