SWRU543B January 2019 – June 2025 CC3230S , CC3230SF , CC3235MODS , CC3235MODSF , CC3235S , CC3235SF
The protocol of the I2C bus defines two states to begin and end a transaction: START and STOP. A high-to-low transition on the SDA line while the SCL is high is defined as a START condition, and a low-to-high transition on the SDA line while SCL is high is defined as a STOP condition. The bus is considered busy after a START condition and free after a STOP condition (see Figure 7-3).
The STOP bit determines if the cycle stops at the end of the data cycle, or continues to a repeated START condition. To generate a single transmit cycle, the I2C Master Slave Address (I2CMSA) register is written with the desired address, the R/S bit is cleared, and the Control register is written with ACK=X (0 or 1), STOP=1, START=1, and RUN=1 to perform the operation and stop. When the operation is completed (or aborted due an error), the interrupt pin becomes active and the data may be read from the I2C Master Data (I2CMDR) register. When the I2C module operates in master receiver mode, the ACK bit is normally set, causing the I2C bus controller to transmit an acknowledge automatically after each byte. This bit must be cleared when the I2C bus controller requires no further data transmission from the slave transmitter.