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Re: Cypress Board Analog Input Help Needed

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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri View Post
Is it common for a floating ADC input to swing with the other ports? It seems like this is caused by some high impedance connection between the input pins.
It's common for there to only be one ADC on a microcontroller, and use a mux to select each one to sample one at a time. If the input is floating, and the mux switches to it, the previous sample is retained. That's what's happening in this case.
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