SWRU626 December 2025 CC3501E , CC3551E
A burst mode is provided for the Controller module which allows a sequence of data transfers using the DMA or software to handle the data in the FIFO. The burst mode is enabled by setting the MBLEN bits in the Controller Control register I2Cx.CCTR to a value greater then '1'.
This sets the number of bytes transferred by a burst. A copy of this value is automatically written to the MBCNT bits in the I2C Controller Status register I2Cx.CSR to be used as a down-counter during the burst transfer. The bytes written to the I2C FIFO are transferred to the RX FIFO or TX FIFO depending on whether a transmit or receive is being executed.
If data is NACK’d during a BURST and the STOP bit is set in the I2Cx.CCTR register, the transfer terminates. If the STOP bit is not set, software must issue a STOP or repeated START when a NACK interrupt is asserted. In the case of a NACK, the MBCNT bits in the I2Cx.CSR register can be used to determine the amount of data that was transferred prior to the burst termination. If the address is NACK’d during a transfer, then a STOP is issued.