RM0453 Rev 5 1071/1450
RM0453 Inter-integrated circuit (I2C) interface
1113
Caution: To b e I
2
C or SMBus compliant, the master clock must respect the timings given in the
following table.
Note: SCLL is also used to generate the t
BUF
and
t
SU:STA
timings, and SCLH is also used to generate
the
t
HD:STA
and
t
SU:STO
timings.
Refer to Section 34.4.10 for examples of I2C_TIMINGR settings vs. I2CCLK frequency.
Master communication initialization (address phase)
In order to initiate the communication, the user must program the following parameters for
the addressed slave in the I2C_CR2 register:
• Addressing mode (7-bit or 10-bit): ADD10
• Slave address to be sent: SADD[9:0]
• Transfer direction: RD_WRN
• In case of 10-bit address read: HEAD10R bit. HEAD10R must be configure to indicate
if the complete address sequence must be sent, or only the header in case of a
direction change.
• The number of bytes to be transferred: NBYTES[7:0]. If the number of bytes is equal to
or greater than 255 bytes, NBYTES[7:0] must initially be filled with 0xFF.
The user must then set the START bit in I2C_CR2 register. Changing all the above bits is
not allowed when START bit is set.
Then the master automatically sends the START condition followed by the slave address as
soon as it detects that the bus is free (BUSY = 0) and after a delay of t
BUF
.
In case of an arbitration loss, the master automatically switches back to slave mode and can
acknowledge its own address if it is addressed as a slave.
Table 228. I
2
C-SMBus specification clock timings
Symbol Parameter
Standard-
mode (Sm)
Fast-mode
(Fm)
Fast-mode
Plus (Fm+)
SMBus
Unit
Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max
f
SCL
SCL clock frequency - 100 - 400 - 1000 - 100 kHz
t
HD:STA
Hold time (repeated) START condition 4.0 - 0.6 - 0.26 - 4.0 -
µs
t
SU:STA
Set-up time for a repeated START
condition
4.7 - 0.6 - 0.26 - 4.7 -
t
SU:STO
Set-up time for STOP condition 4.0 - 0.6 - 0.26 - 4.0 -
t
BUF
Bus free time between a STOP and
START condition
4.7 - 1.3 - 0.5 - 4.7 -
t
LOW
Low period of the SCL clock 4.7 - 1.3 - 0.5 - 4.7 -
t
HIGH
Period of the SCL clock 4.0 - 0.6 - 0.26 - 4.0 50
t
r
Rise time of both SDA and SCL signals - 1000 - 300 - 120 - 1000
ns
t
f
Fall time of both SDA and SCL signals - 300 - 300 - 120 - 300