I2C System Overview; Inter-Integrated Circuit Controller - Texas Instruments OMAP5910 Technical Reference Manual

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C Protocol Description

Figure 7–23. I

C System Overview

Functional Overview

This section describes the I

overview. References to a local host in this section refer to the MPU processor.

C bus is a multimaster bus. The I

multimaster mode, to which more than one device capable of controlling the

bus can be connected. Including the OMAP5910, each I

nized by a unique address and can operate as either transmitter or receiver

depending on the function of the device. In addition to being a transmitter

or receiver, a device connected to the I

ter or slave when performing data transfers. A master device is the device

which initiates a data transfer on the bus and generates the clock signals to

permit that transfer. During this transfer, any device addressed by this

master is considered a slave.

Inter-Integrated Circuit Controller

C protocol. Figure 7–23 shows the I

C controller function does support the

C bus can also be considered as mas-

MPU Public Peripherals

C device is recog-