Programmable, staged, bus hold and weak pull-up for bi-directional I/O

摘要

The present invention encompasses a bus hold and weak pull-up circuit. A resistor having a first node and a second node is coupled to a bi-directional I/O pin at the first node. The weak pull-up circuit is directly coupled to the resistor at the first node. The bus hold circuit is coupled to the resistor at the second node.