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echo: rberrypi
to: ALISTER
from: FOLDEROL
date: 2020-02-28 22:15:00
subject: Re: rPi 3 w/thermistor

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:01:34 GMT
Alister  wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:27:48 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:39:05 GMT, Jan Panteltje
>> 
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>
>>>The GPIO as _digital_ input sees a 'logic zero' below some voltage and a
>>>'logic one' above  some voltage.
>>>Th exact voltage can vary,  also  depends on temperature and production
>>>spread,
>>>but is somewhere between 0 and 3.3 V
>>>
>>>
>>  Presuming common CMOS thresholds of 30 and 70%: <0.99V is LOW,
>>2.31V
>> is HIGH. What the circuit does between those thresholds is indeterminate
>> (I'd hope it holds the last valid state until the far threshold is
>> crossed).
>
>that is exactly what does NOT happen.
>the logic sate will flip at some in-determinant point between the two
>thresholds. The thresholds are simply points at which the state is
>guaranteed.

This is mostly true, but not when the device specifies a schmitt trigger input,
when indeed the output is held until the second threshold is reached.

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