arduino / arduino/docs-content

Unwanted pulse warning for devices connected to onboard LED and corresponding pin

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Description

I have noted when the microcontroller RESET signal is negated, the Arduino bootloader flashes the onboard LED on a particular pin (which depending on the microcrontroller can support SCK as an SPI hardware function on this pin) and this occurrence (with an ATmega328P) was causing an HMC830 PLL/VCO (attached to hardware SPI pins with the SPI hardware function used) to latch an operating mode (according to the manufacturer's Operating Guide) when not wanted which can only be reset by removing power to the HMC830.

So therefore, I think there should be a warning about unwanted pulses (and possible unwanted interactions on connected hardware) on the pin connected to the onboard LED which flashes under bootloader control after negation of the RESET signal.

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Research direction

No file, test, or documentation entry point is identified. Start by locating the Arduino bootloader, reset behavior, onboard LED pin, and SPI hardware documentation; the work is done when it clearly warns about the boot-time pulse and possible interactions with connected hardware.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation, embedded-iot
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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