ST STM32F102 Series Reference Manual page 592

Inter-integrated circuit (I
Address resolution protocol (ARP)
SMBus slave address conflicts can be resolved by dynamically assigning a new unique
address to each slave device. The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) has the following
attributes:
● Address assignment uses the standard SMBus physical layer arbitration mechanism
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Assigned addresses remain constant while device power is applied; address retention
through device power loss is also allowed
●
No additional SMBus packet overhead is incurred after address assignment. (i.e.
subsequent accesses to assigned slave addresses have the same overhead as
accesses to fixed address devices.)
● Any SMBus master can enumerate the bus
Unique device identifier (UDID)
In order to provide a mechanism to isolate each device for the purpose of address
assignment, each device must implement a unique device identifier (UDID).
For the details on 128 bit UDID and more information on ARP, refer to SMBus specification
ver. 2.0 (http://smbus.org/specs/).
SMBus alert mode
SMBus Alert is an optional signal with an interrupt line for devices that want to trade their
ability to master for a pin. SMBALERT is a wired-AND signal just as the SCL and SDA
signals are. SMBALERT is used in conjunction with the SMBus General Call Address.
Messages invoked with the SMBus are 2 bytes long.
A slave-only device can signal the host through SMBALERT that it wants to talk by setting
ALERT bit in I2C_CR1 register. The host processes the interrupt and simultaneously
accesses all SMBALERT devices through the Alert Response Address (known as ARA
having a value 0001 100X). Only the device(s) which pulled SMBALERT low will
acknowledge the Alert Response Address. This status is identified using SMBALERT Status
flag in I2C_SR1 register. The host performs a modified Receive Byte operation. The 7 bit
device address provided by the slave transmit device is placed in the 7 most significant bits
of the byte. The eighth bit can be a zero or one.
If more than one device pulls SMBALERT low, the highest priority (lowest address) device
will win communication rights via standard arbitration during the slave address transfer. After
acknowledging the slave address the device must disengage its SMBALERT pull-down. If
the host still sees SMBALERT low when the message transfer is complete, it knows to read
the ARA again.
A host which does not implement the SMBALERT signal may periodically access the ARA.
For more details on SMBus Alert mode, refer to SMBus specification ver. 2.0
(http://smbus.org/specs/).
Timeout error
There are differences in the timing specifications between I
SMBus defines a clock low timeout, TIMEOUT of 35 ms. Also SMBus specifies TLOW:
SEXT as the cumulative clock low extend time for a slave device. SMBus specifies TLOW:
MEXT as the cumulative clock low extend time for a master device. For more details on
these timeouts, refer to SMBus specification ver. 2.0 (http://smbus.org/specs/).
The status flag Timeout or Tlow Error in I2C_SR1 shows the status of this feature.
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