SLVSLJ4 April 2026 TCA9847
ADVANCE INFORMATION
The TCA9847 is an 8-channel, bidirectional translating I2C multiplexer. The controller SCL/SDA signal pair is directed to eight channels of target devices, SC0/SD0-SC7/SD7. Any individual downstream channel can be selected as well as any combination of the eight channels.
The device offers an active-low RESET input which resets the state machine and allows the TCA9847 to recover if one of the downstream I2C buses get stuck in a low state. The state machine of the device can also be reset by cycling the power supply, VCC, also known as a power-on reset (POR). Both the RESET function and a POR cause all channels to be deselected.
The connections of the I2C data path are controlled by the same I2C controller device that is switched to communicate with multiple I2C targets. After the successful acknowledgment of the target address (hardware selectable by A0 and A1 pins), a single 8-bit control register is written to or read from to determine the selected channels.
The TCA9847 can also be used for voltage translation, allowing the use of different bus voltages on each SCn/SDn pair such that 0.65V, 0.8V, 1.2V, or 1.8V parts can communicate with 3.3V parts. This action is achieved by using external pullup resistors to pull the bus up to the desired voltage for the controller and each target channel.