An SD card has 9 pins. Only 7 of these pins are used to communicate with an SD card in SPI mode. SD cards require between 2 and 3.6 VDC. In this lab, we use a bench top power supply to provide 3.3 VDC to both the PIC and to the SD card. 50k pull-up resistors are essential, even for the pins that are not being used for SPI communications. Note that a pull-up resistor should not be used on the clock line.