Rohde & Schwarz Scope Rider RTH - Page 181

Protocol Analysis
R&S
®
Scope Rider RTH
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Addressing scheme: each slave device is addressable by a unique address. Multi-
ple slave devices can be linked together and can be addressed by the same mas-
ter.
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Read/write bit: specifies if the master reads (=1) or writes (=0) the data.
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Acknowledge: takes place after every byte. The receiver of the address or data
sends the acknowledge bit to the transmitter.
The R&S RTH supports all operating speed modes: high-speed, fast mode plus, fast
mode, and standard mode.
Data transfer
The format of a simple I²C message (frame) with 7-bit addressing consists of the fol-
lowing parts:
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Start condition: a falling slope on SDA while SCL is high
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7-bit address of the slave device that either is written to or read from
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R/W bit: specifies if the data is written to or read from the slave
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ACKnowledge bits: is issued by the receiver of the previous byte if the transfer was
successful
Exception: At read access, the master terminates the data transmission with a
NACK bit after the last byte.
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Data: several data bytes with an ACK bit after every byte
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Stop condition: a rising slope on SDA while SCL is high
Figure 9-7: I2C writes access with 7-bit address
Address types: 7-bit and 10-bit
Slave addresses can be 7 bits or 10 bits long. A 7-bit address requires 1 byte, 7 bits for
the address followed by the R/W bit.
A 10-bit address for write access requires 2 bytes: the first byte starts with the reserved
sequence 11110, followed by the two MSB of the address and the write bit. The second
byte contains the remaining 8 LSB of the address. The slave acknowledges each
address byte.
I2C (Option R&S
RTH-K1)