1 Table of contents.................................................................................................................3 2 Purpose of this Application Note..........................................................................................4 3 Intel Mode...........................................................................................................................5 3.1 Important Notice ...........................................................................................................5 3.2 Working variants ...........................................................................................................5 3.2.1 Master transmitter with typical timing......................................................................5 3.2.2 Master transmitter with long chip select.................................................................5 3.2.3 Master transmitter with long CS and long WR ........................................................6 3.2.4 Master receiver with typical timing ..........................................................................6 3.2.5 Master receiver with long CS and long RD Critical ! ..............................................6 3.2.6 Master receiver with very long CS ..........................................................................7 3.2.7 Master receiver mode with very long RD Critical ! ................................................7 3.2.8 Master receiver mode with repeated start and write after read ...............................8 3.3 Motorola access sequence in Intel mode ......................................................................9 3.3.1 WR low before CS low............................................................................................9 3.3.2 WR low after CS low Illegal ! ................................................................................9 3.3.3 CS shorter than, and within WR Not working !.....................................................10 4 Motorola Mode...................................................................................................................11 4.1 Access sequences which work under limited circumstances.......................................11 4.1.1 Write access timing Critical ! ...............................................................................11 4.1.2 Master receiver, very long read cycle Critical !.....................................................11 4.1.3 Falling CS before R/W Illegal ! ...........................................................................12 4.1.4 R/W high before CS high......................................................................................12 4.1.5 R/W shorter than CS and within CS low period Illegal ! ......................................12 5 Reset................................................................................................................................13 6 Good to know ....................................................................................................................13 6.1 Detection of I2C bus traffic ..........................................................................................13 6.2 Not detected start in slave mode.................................................................................13 6.3 Live insertion of hardware ...........................................................................................14 6.4 Statusregister S1 ........................................................................................................14 6.5 PCF8584 in systems with micros with on board I2C ....................................................14 7 Multimaster systems..........................................................................................................14 7.1 Power up in Multimaster systems................................................................................15 7.2 Lost arbitration ............................................................................................................15 7.3 Lost arbitration with general call- or own- address ......................................................16 8 Appendix ...........................................................................................................................17 8.1 Recommended literature.............................................................................................17 8.2 Distribution..................................................................................................................17