SD Pull-up Requirements
Espressif hardware products are designed for multiple use cases which may require different pull states on pins. For this reason, the pull state of particular pins on certain products needs to be adjusted to provide the pull-ups required in the SD bus.
SD pull-up requirements apply to cases where ESP32 uses the SPI or SDMMC controller to communicate with SD cards. When an SD card is operating in SPI mode or 1-bit SD mode, the CMD and DATA (DAT0 - DAT3) lines of the SD bus must be pulled up by 10 kOhm resistors. SD cards and SDIO devices should also have pull-ups on all above-mentioned lines (regardless of whether these lines are connected to the host) in order to prevent them from entering a wrong state.
By default, the MTDI bootstrapping pin is incompatible with the DAT2 line pull-up if the flash voltage is 3.3 V. For more information, see MTDI Strapping Pin below.
This document has the following structure:
Overview of compatibility between the default pull states on pins of Espressif's products and the states required by the SD bus
Solutions - ideas on how to resolve compatibility issues
Related information - other relevant information
Overview of Compatibility
This section provides an overview of compatibility issues that might occur when using SDIO (secure digital input output). Since the SD bus needs to be connected to pull-ups, these issues should be resolved regardless of whether they are related to master (host) or slave (device). Each issue has links to its respective solution. A solution for a host and device may differ.
Systems on a Chip (SoCs)
ESP32 (except for D2WD versions, see ESP32 datasheet):
Conflicts Between Bootstrap and SDIO on DAT2 for models with 3.3 V flash chip
ESP32-D2WD:
Systems in Packages (SIP)
ESP32-PICO-D4:
Modules
ESP32-WROOM-32 Series, including ESP32-WROOM-32, ESP32-WROOM-32D, ESP32-WROOM-32U, and ESP32-SOLO-1
ESP32-WROVER Series, including ESP32-WROVER and ESP32-WROVER-I
ESP32-WROVER-B Series, including ESP32-WROVER-B and ESP32-WROVER-IB
Development Boards
ESP32-PICO-KIT, including PICO-KIT v4.1, v4.0, and v3
ESP32-DevKitC, including ESP32-DevKitC v4 and v2
ESP-WROVER-KIT
Required pull-ups are provided
Pull-up Conflicts on GPIO13 (v4.1, v3, v2, and v1)
Conflicts Between Bootstrap and SDIO on DAT2 (v4.1, v2, and v1)
You can determine the version of your ESP23-WROVER-KIT by checking which module is mounted on it:
ESP32-WROVER-B on v4.1
ESP32-WROVER on v3
ESP32-WROOM-32 on v1 and v2
ESP32-LyraTD-MSC
Required pull-ups are provided
ESP32-LyraT
Required pull-ups are provided
Non-Espressif Hosts
Please make sure that your SDIO host provides necessary pull-ups for all SD bus signals.
Solutions
No Pull-ups
If you use a development board without pull-ups, you can do the following:
If your host and slave device are on separate boards, replace one of them with a board that has pull-ups. For the list of Espressif's development boards with pull-ups, go to Development Boards.
Attach external pull-ups by connecting each pin which requires a pull-up to VDD via a 10 kOhm resistor.
Pull-up Conflicts on GPIO13
If DAT3 of your device is not properly pulled up, you have the following options:
Use 1-bit SD mode and tie the device's DAT3 to VDD
Use SPI mode
- Perform one of the following actions on the GPIO13 pin:
Remove the pull-down resistors
Attach a pull-up resistor of less than 5 kOhm (2 kOhm suggested)
Pull it up or drive it high either by using the host or with 3.3 V on VDD in 1-bit SD mode
Conflicts Between Bootstrap and SDIO on DAT2
There is a conflict between the boot strapping requirements of the ESP32 and the SDIO protocol. For details, see MTDI Strapping Pin.
To resolve the conflict, you have the following options:
(Recommended) Burn the flash voltage selection eFuses. This permanently configures the internal regulator's output voltage to 3.3 V, and GPIO12 will not be used as a bootstrapping pin. After that, connect a pull-up resistor to GPIO12.
警告
Burning eFuses is irreversible! The issue list above might be out of date, so please make sure that the module you are burning has a 3.3 V flash chip by checking the information on https://www.espressif.com/. If you burn the 3.3 V eFuses on a module with a 1.8 V flash chip, the module will stop functioning.
If you are sure that you need to irreversibly burn eFuses, go to your ESP-IDF directory and run the following command using espefuse.py
tool:
components/esptool_py/esptool/espefuse.py set_flash_voltage 3.3V
This command burns the XPD_SDIO_TIEH
, XPD_SDIO_FORCE
, and XPD_SDIO_REG
eFuses. After all the three eFuses are burned to value 1, the internal VDD_SDIO flash voltage regulator is permanently set to 3.3 V. You will see the following log if the burning succeeds:
espefuse.py v2.6
Connecting....
Enable internal flash voltage regulator (VDD_SDIO) to 3.3 V.
The following eFuses are burned: XPD_SDIO_FORCE, XPD_SDIO_REG, XPD_SDIO_TIEH.
This is an irreversible operation.
Type 'BURN' (all capitals) to continue.
BURN
VDD_SDIO setting complete.
To check the status of the eFuses, run:
.. code-block::
idf.py efuse-summary
If running from an automated flashing script, it is better to use standalone eFuse tool, espefuse.py
. This tool also has an option --do-not-confirm
to burn eFuses without confirmation.
For more details, see ESP32 Technical Reference Manual [PDF].
If using 1-bit SD mode or SPI mode, disconnect the DAT2 pin and make sure it is pulled high. For this, do one the following:
Leave the host's DAT2 floating and directly connect the slave's DAT2 to VDD.
For a slave device, build a firmware with the option
SDIO_SLAVE_FLAG_DAT2_DISABLED
and re-flash your device. This option helps avoid slave detecting on the DAT2 line. Note that 4-bit SD mode is no longer supported by the standard Card Common Control Register (CCCR); however, the host is not aware of that. The use of 4-bit SD mode has to be disabled on the host's side.
No Pull-up on GPIO12
Your module is compatible with the SDIO protocol. Just connect GPIO12 to VDD via a 10 kOhm resistor.
Download Mode Not Working (minor issue)
When the GPIO2 pin is pulled high in accordance with the SD pull-up requirements, you cannot enter Download mode because GPIO2 is a bootstrapping pin which in this case must be pulled low.
There are the following solutions:
For boards that require shorting the GPIO0 and GPIO2 pins with a jumper, put the jumper in place, and the auto-reset circuit pulls GPIO2 low along with GPIO0 before entering Download mode.
For boards with components attached to their GPIO2 pin (such as pull-down resistors and/or LEDs), check the schematic of your development board for anything connected to GPIO2.
LEDs would not affect operation in most cases.
Pull-down resistors can interfere with DAT0 signals and must be removed.
If the above solutions do not work for you, please determine if it is the host or slave device that has pull-ups affecting their GPIO2, then locate these pull-ups and remove them.