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Merlin onboard LED & Laser control

Several functions on the Merlin board are controlled via GPIO ports that are provided by a PCA9557 circuit.

PCA9557 I2C Bus

This chip is controlled via I2C1 of the Raspberry Pi CM4 on address 0x18.

  • CM4_GPIO2, ALT0 → SDA

  • CM4_GPIO3, ALT0 → SCL

See https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/cm4/cm4-datasheet.pdf section 2.5.1 on page 9 for details on the mapping of I/O pins.

I/O functions

PCA9557 Port

Signal

Function

J351 pin

PCA9557 Port

Signal

Function

J351 pin

0

LR_LED_R

1st IR LEDs right

10

1

IR_LED_L

1st IR LEDs left

11

2

Fix_LED_L

Fixation LED left

9

3

Fix_LED_R

Fixation LED right

8

4

IR+Fix_LED_L

2nd IR LED left

7

5

IR+Fix_LED_R

2nd IR LED right

6

6

CAM_PWR_OFF

Camera power

 

7

LASER_EN

Laser

2

J351 I/O connector pin assignment

Pin

Signal

Pin

Signal

1

GND

2

Laser power

3

GND

4

3.3V

5

3.3V

6

2nd IR LED right

7

2nd IR LED left

8

Fixation LED right

9

Fixation LED left

10

1st IR LED right

11

1st IR LED left

12

GND

 

 

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