SNIU028D February 2016 – September 2020 UCD3138 , UCD3138064 , UCD3138064A , UCD3138128 , UCD3138A , UCD3138A64
There are other functions available in the PMBus module. The 4 PMBus pins can be used as general purpose I/O. This can be done using the GLOBAL IO registers in the Miscellaneous Analog memory space. It can also be done using the PMBCTRL3 register for configuration and the PMBST register for monitoring. All of these bits follow standard microprocessor peripheral protocol, so no further description is necessary beyond the reference section above.
The PMBCTRL3 register also has 2 bits called IBIAS_A_EN and IBIAS_B_EN. These bits are used to enable a small current onto 2 ADC pins to permit the use of resistors on those pins for setting the PMBus address. See Section 8.14 for more information.