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Hi!
I'm currently designing a product that should work with a set of daughter boards, which are not designed by me, some of them have IOs working at 3.3V, some working at 1.8V.
In order to manage this, I place a TXB0108DQSR in my board, which translates from 3.3V (in my board) to 1.8V or 3.3V, depending on the daughter board I plugged.
I have a problem with one daughter board, which has inside a TXB0108RGYR in the same lines I have my TXB0108DQSR.
In this case, my board sets the digital line to 0V, but I have 1.05V at the output of my TXB0108DQSR, which is the input of the TXB0108RGYR in the daughter board.
I suspect this is because of some collateral effect due to having both bidirectional level translators in cascade.
To make things more difficult, I can't use a unidirectional translators, because these signals are input or output depending on the daughter board plugged.
Do you think I can do something to make this working?
TXB translators cannot be connected to each other. They have weak outputs in order to allow other devices to override the voltage, but this does not work if the other output is equally weak.
Use a translator like the SN74AXC4T774 that allows to configure all directions.
Hi!
Thanks for your answer!
Do you think that adding some pull-up or down resistors or anything else to strenght that signal would help?