Features
- Bidirectional, two-wire communication
interface
- Philips I2C compatible
- Standard mode (Sm/100 kHz with
slew-rate limited output)
- Fast mode (Fm/400 kHz with
slew-rate limited output)
- Fast mode plus (Fm+/1 MHz with ×10
output drive strength)
- System Management Bus (SMBus) 2.0
compatible (100 kHz with slew-rate limited output)
- Support arbitration between
Start/Repeated Start and data bit
- Slave arbitration allows support
for the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
- Configurable SMBus Layer 1
time-outs in hardware
- Independent time-outs for Dual
mode
- Independent Master and Slave
operation
- Combined (same pins) or Dual mode
(separate pins)
- Single or multi-master bus
operation with full arbitration support
- Flexible slave address match hardware
operating in all sleep modes, including Power-Down
- 7-bit and general call address
recognition
- 10-bit addressing support in
collaboration with software
- Address mask register allows
address range masking, alternatively it can be used as a secondary address
match
- Optional software address
recognition for unlimited number of addresses
- Input filter for bus noise
suppression