摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate identification of inter-integrated circuit slave devices using device identification coding. The communications system includes a slave device having a device identification code identifying one or more parameters. Communications circuitry in the slave device is configured to communicate with a master device on the I2C serial data transfer bus using the communications protocol. In response to a transmission of a device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit an ACKNOWLEDGE, and in response to a transmission of a slave device address and the device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit the device identification code from the slave device to the master.
摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, a communications system uses an I2C serial data transfer bus that has a serial data line (110) and a clock line (120) used to implement a communications protocol. The communications system includes a slave device having address pins (400), each coupled to the serial data line, clock line, power line, or ground. Communications circuitry communicates with a master device in accordance with the communications protocol over the data transfer bus. Decoding circuitry detects a first state of the address pins (410), detects a second state of the address pins (420) subsequent to the detection of the first state, wherein one or more logic values of the address pins differ between the first state and the second state, and decodes a slave device address (430) as a functional relationship between the first state and the second state of the address pins.
摘要:
A repeater employs multiple threshold detectors to distinguish between signals from external devices and signals generated within the repeater. Signals that are sent from the repeater are configured to be between two threshold levels, so that a detector at one threshold level will detect an active signal, but the detector at the other threshold level will not detect an active signal. When an external signal is received on one side (A) of the repeater, it is propagated to the other side (B) of the repeater, and at the same time, the other side (B) of the repeater is configured to only propagate external signals back to the first side (A). In this manner, the internally generated signal from one side (A) is not propagated back to the same side (A), and a latch-up is avoided. In like manner, when an external signal is received at the other side (B), the first side (A) of the repeater is configured to propagate only externally generated signals. If both sides of the repeater are externally driven, the active signal is propagated to both sides of the repeater, thereby emulating the response that would be provided by a wired bus without a repeater. The repeater is particularly well suited for an I2C bus architecture.
摘要:
The invention provides a voltage stabilized low level driver. The driver includes a switched op-amp that controls the output of the driver to match an internal reference voltage when it is switched on. When it is switched off, the op-amp turns off the output of the driver and allows the output to be pulled up by an external device. The driver also includes a slew rate control circuit for limiting the slew rate of the high-to-low transition at the output. The driver may be used for I2C applications.
摘要:
A programmable logic device (PLD) integrated circuit containing an array of fuse or anti-fuse links includes verification circuitry configured to classify link resistances after programing into three resistance zones, corresponding to a "closed" state zone, an "open" state zone and a "forbidden" state zone intermediate the "closed" and "open" state zones. Two reference resistance values, namely a lower reference resistance value and the higher reference resistance value, divide the entire range of possible link resistance values into the aforementioned three resistance zones. Because the ratio between the higher reference resistance value and the lower reference resistance value is typically more than 50, the verification circuitry includes a switchable two level current source that produces a voltage across the link of correct dynamic range. A measurement voltage produced in response to the link voltage is compared by a pair of differential comparators to respective lower and higher reference voltages, the lower reference voltage corresponding to the measurement voltage that would be produced by a higher link voltage that is the product of the higher reference resistance value and the lower current level, and the higher reference voltage corresponding to the measurement voltage that would be produced by a lower link voltage that is the product of the lower reference resistance value and the higher current level.
摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, a communications system uses an I2C serial data transfer bus that has a serial data line (110) and a clock line (120) used to implement a communications protocol. The communications system includes a slave device having address pins (400), each coupled to the serial data line, clock line, power line, or ground. Communications circuitry communicates with a master device in accordance with the communications protocol over the data transfer bus. Decoding circuitry detects a first state of the address pins (410), detects a second state of the address pins (420) subsequent to the detection of the first state, wherein one or more logic values of the address pins differ between the first state and the second state, and decodes a slave device address (430) as a functional relationship between the first state and the second state of the address pins.
摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate programming of parallel slave devices concurrently using an I2C serial bus. At least two slave devices are coupled in parallel on the data transfer bus and configured to load serial data over the serial data line using the communications protocol. Each slave device includes a programmable configuration register configured to be programmed, using the communications protocol, to select one of a plurality of selectable slave device configurations. One of the selectable slave device configurations causes the at least two slave devices to load the serial data in parallel, and another of the selectable slave device configurations causes the at least two slave devices to be loaded one at a time.
摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate programmable loading of a logic value into parallel slave device registers. The communications system includes a slave device having two or more registers, each register having two or more bits, each register configured to load data therein received in accordance with the communications protocol over the data transfer bus in a first configuration, and to load a single logic value into the plurality of bits in a second configuration. A programmable configuration register is configured to be programmed, in accordance with the communications protocol over the data transfer bus, to select two or more of the registers for loading of the single logic value into the two or more of bits of the selected registers in the second configuration.
摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate identification of inter-integrated circuit slave devices using device identification coding. The communications system includes a slave device having a device identification code identifying one or more parameters. Communications circuitry in the slave device is configured to communicate with a master device on the I2C serial data transfer bus using the communications protocol. In response to a transmission of a device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit an ACKNOWLEDGE, and in response to a transmission of a slave device address and the device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit the device identification code from the slave device to the master.
摘要:
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate programmable updating of slave device output banks sequentially or simultaneously. The communications system includes two or more slave devices and/or a slave device having two or more banks of output drivers. Each slave device receives serial data and provides a data word assembled from the serial data. A programmable register in each slave device is programmed, using the communications protocol, to select one or more slave device configurations. Each of the two or more slave devices and/or two or more banks of output drivers updates either sequentially, or in coordination with other of the two or more slave devices and/or two or more banks of output drivers, based on each slave devices configuration selected by its programmable register.