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General Precautions on Handling of Product
1. Treatment of NC Pins
Note: Do not connect anything to the NC pins.
The NC (not connected) pins are either not connected to any of the internal circuitry or are
used as test pins or to reduce noise. If something is connected to the NC pins, the
operation of the LSI is not guaranteed.
2. Treatment of Unused Input Pins
Note: Fix all unused input pins to high or low level.
Generally, the input pins of CMOS products are high-impedance input pins. If unused pins
are in their open states, intermediate levels are induced by noise in the vicinity, a pass-
through current flows internally, and a malfunction may occur.
3. Processing before Initialization
Note: When power is first supplied, the product’s state is undefined.
The states of internal circuits are undefined until full power is supplied throughout the
chip and a low level is input on the reset pin. During the period where the states are
undefined, the register settings and the output state of each pin are also undefined. Design
your system so that it does not malfunction because of processing while it is in this
undefined state. For those products which have a reset function, reset the LSI immediately
after the power supply has been turned on.
4. Prohibition of Access to Undefined or Reserved Addresses
Note: Access to undefined or reserved addresses is prohibited.
The undefined or reserved addresses may be used to expand functions, or test registers
may have been be allocated to these addresses. Do not access these registers; the system’s
operation is not guaranteed if they are accessed.
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Preface
The H8/300L Series of single-chip microcomputers has the high-speed H8/300L CPU at its core,
with many necessary peripheral functions on-chip. The H8/300L CPU instruction set is compatible
with the H8/300 CPU.
The H8/3644 Group has a system-on-a-chip architecture that includes such peripheral functions as
a D/A converter, five timers, a 14-bit PWM, a two-channel serial communication interface, and an
A/D converter. This makes it ideal for use in advanced control systems.
This manual describes the hardware of the H8/3644 Group. For details on the H8/3644 Group
instruction set, refer to the H8/300L Series Programming Manual.
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