I wrote up some docs on what I've been seeing as strange results for stray capacitance on the GPIO pins. See "Stray Capacitance" in the GitHub README for full details.
I can't understand how the signal takes so long to decay - am I wrong about this being just RC from the pcb trace & zif socket? The RC would be tiny but the decay takes 25 secs.
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One of the hits I got is a Cornell University course that says: "The input impedance, in either state, of CMOS gates is typically 10^12 Ω. The input capacitance is 5 pF."
Do those values give you numbers closer to what you observed?
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Hmm? ...Well if it was 10^12 ohm rather than 100mohm and I assume 20pf in the input plus the trace plus the zif then I think it comes to 20secs which is definitely in the right ballpark. That's really helpful Ken if this is right. Thanks i'm not bonkers after all.
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