Interfacing I2C devices

agfa

I'm going to be playing around with some·I2C devices.· Do I need a current limiting resistor on the SDA line to protect the prop or the device incase of a conflict?

agfa

Leon

No.

Leon

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agfa

Thanks Leon

Leon

Reading the I2C spec. would be a good idea.

Leon

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Nick Mueller

But two pullups would be good, if you can stand the investment.

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jazzed

If it's a 5V device where the device output is > 3.3V, a resistor between the device output and propeller input should be used. A series resistor value should be selected based on the voltage drop across the resistor that will produce no more than 0.5ma. If device output voltage is Voh, then R >= (Voh - 3.3) / 0.0005. YMMV.

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Leon

NXP has an app note describing a technique using MOSFETs for level conversion.

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agfa

Yes Leon.

Thanks Nick, thanks Steve

edit:

looking at the phillips I2C specs v 2.1 it shows devices of different·voltage suplies tied·directly to the bus.· I didn't see any thing about considerations of tying the bus·to a microcontroller.· I will continue reading.


Post Edited (agfa) : 7/4/2009 3:12:49 PM GMT

agfa

I'll see if I can find it Leon.· Thanks again.

Leon

It's AN10441_1.pdf. It's a bidirectional circuit and meets the I2C spec.

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Timmoore

My experience has been for small number of 5V i2c devices a pullup (4.7K-10K) to 3.3V on the prop pins for sda,scl, then 1K inline resistors for the sda/scl works.
For a lot of I2C devices > 10 you may be better with the mosfet interface, if you want to prototype or dont want to build it, I have used both i2c level shifter devices and the sparkfun http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8745 board.

Leon

I think you've been lucky. Vih for 5V CMOS I2C devices is typically 3.5V minimum.

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Post Edited (Leon) : 7/4/2009 5:52:32 PM GMT

pjv

Hi All;

Actually, it is not a bad idea. One time I had a bear of a time finding a bug in my software that occasionally·caused a conflict, and it was sufficient to pull the power supply low enough for a couple of microseconds·to cause a RESET. Of course this is not supposed to happen but during debugging it has proven that it can.

My experience is that a series resistor on the SDA line -I use 100 ohms- works just fine, and then you also dont have to turn the processor's port bit to an input when the I2C device sends an acknowledge and you are happy to ignore that acknowledge.

Cheers,

Peter (pjv)

Post Edited (pjv) : 7/4/2009 6:07:03 PM GMT

agfa

Thanks all.