SLAZ149I October 2012 – May 2021 MSP430F168
I2C Module
Functional
Master Transmitter transmits 0FFh continuously.
When the USART is configured for I2C mode (U0CTL.I2C, SYNC, and I2CEN are set) and the module is configured as an I2C master (U0CTL.MST=1) and I2CNDAT is used to control the number of bytes to transmit, the possibility exists that the master state-machine can become corrupted and start sending 0FFh as data on the I2C bus. Specifically, this error can occur when a long delay occurs between the set of the I2CTXRDY interrupt flag and the loading of I2CDRB (I2CDRW).
After detection of the I2CTXRDY interrupt flag, verify that the I2CTXUDF bit in I2CDCTL is set before loading I2CDRB (I2CDRW).