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UART only works with capacitance

Hi!

I'm trying to communicate with modem through UART.

Power supply: Battery connected to VDDH

VDD_nRF: 1.8V

nRF52840 DK connected to modem devkit using wires (about 10 cm length)

nRF receives data from modem, but modem don't see data. I don't know, if it nRF chip problem or no. I had connected oscilloscope to nRF tx pin and UART worked. I thought that I need pull-up or pull-down resistor, but it didn't help. I measured oscilloscope capacitance and setup same capacitance between rx pin and GND and it worked.

Could you explain, why it happens, and how to solve it? Adding capacitance doesn't seem a good solution.

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