ZHCSAF0E September 2012 – January 2018
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I2C is a 2-wire serial interface developed by Philips Semiconductor (see I2C-Bus Specification, Version 2.1, January 2000). The bus consists of a data line (SDA) and a clock line (SCL) with pull-up structures. When the bus is idle, both SDA and SCL lines are pulled high. All the I2C compatible devices connect to the I2C bus through open drain I/O pins, SDA and SCL. A master device, usually a microcontroller or a digital signal processor, controls the bus. The master is responsible for generating the SCL signal and device addresses. The master also generates specific conditions that indicate the START and STOP of data transfer. A slave device receives and/or transmits data on the bus under control of the master device.
The IC works as a slave and is compatible with the following data transfer modes, as defined in the I2C-Bus Specification: standard mode (100 kbps), fast mode (400 kbps), and high-speed mode (up to 3.4 Mbps in write mode). The interface adds flexibility to the battery charge solution, enabling most functions to be programmed to new values depending on the instantaneous application requirements. Register contents remain intact as long as supply voltage remains above 2.2 V (typical). I2C is asynchronous, which means that it runs off of SCL. The device has no noise or glitch filtering on SCL, so SCL input needs to be clean. Therefore, it is recommended that SDA changes while SCL is LOW.
The data transfer protocol for standard and fast modes is the same; therefore, they are referred to as F/S-mode in this document. The protocol for high-speed mode is different from the F/S-mode, and it is referred to as HS-mode. The bq24157B device supports 7-bit addressing only. The device 7-bit address is defined as ‘1101010’ (6AH).