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I2C MANUAL Jean-Marc Irazabal Steve Blozis Specialty Logic Product Line Logic Product Group Philips Semiconductors March 24, 2003 I2C Overview What is I2C ? (Inter-IC) ? Originally, bus defined by Philips providing a simple way to talk between IC’s by using a minimum number of pins ? A set of specifications to build a simple universal bus guaranteeing compatibility of parts (ICs) from different manufacturers: – Simple Hardware standards – Simple Software protocol standard ? No specific wiring or connectors - most often it’s just PCB tracks ? Has become a recognised standard throughout our industry and is used now by ALL major IC manufacturers。 Originally, the I2C bus was designed to link a small number of devices on a single card, such as to manage the tuning of a car radio or TV. The maximum allowable capacitance was set at 400 PF to allow proper rise and fall times for optimum clock and data signal integrity with a top speed of 100 kbps. In 1992 the standard bus speed was increased to 400 kbps, to keep up with the ever-increasing performance requirements of new ICs. The 1998 I2C specification, increased top speed to 3.4 Mbits/sec. All I2C devices are designed to be able to communicate together on the same two-wire bus and system functional architecture is limited only by the imagination of the designer. But while its application to bus lengths within the confines of consumer products such as PCs, cellular phones, car radios or TV sets grew quickly, only a few system integrators were using it to span a room or a building. The I2C bus is now being increasingly used in multiple card systems, such as a blade servers, where the I2C bus to each card needs to be isolatable to allow for card insertion and removal while the rest of the system is in operation, or in systems where many more devices need to be located onto the same card, where the total device and trace capacitance