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Figure 24-9. Arbitration Between Two Masters
SD A from
Master A
SD A from
Master B
SD A Line
Synchroniz ed
SCL Line
START
Master A Loses
Arbitration, SD A
A
SD A
Note that arbitration is not allowed between:
A REPEATED START condition and a data bit.
A STOP condition and a data bit.
A REPEATED START and a STOP condition.
It is the user software’s responsibility to ensure that these illegal arbitration conditions never occur. This
implies that in multi-master systems, all data transfers must use the same composition of SLA+R/W and
data packets. In other words: All transmissions must contain the same number of data packets, otherwise
the result of the arbitration is undefined.
24.6. Using the TWI
The AVR TWI is byte-oriented and interrupt based. Interrupts are issued after all bus events, like
reception of a byte or transmission of a START condition. Because the TWI is interrupt-based, the
application software is free to carry on other operations during a TWI byte transfer. Note that the TWI
Interrupt Enable (TWIE) bit in TWCR together with the Global Interrupt Enable bit in SREG allow the
application to decide whether or not assertion of the TWINT Flag should generate an interrupt request. If
the TWIE bit is cleared, the application must poll the TWINT Flag in order to detect actions on the TWI
bus.
When the TWINT Flag is asserted, the TWI has finished an operation and awaits application response. In
this case, the TWI Status Register (TWSR) contains a value indicating the current state of the TWI bus.
The application software can then decide how the TWI should behave in the next TWI bus cycle by
manipulating the TWCR and TWDR Registers.
The following figure is a simple example of how the application can interface to the TWI hardware. In this
example, a Master wishes to transmit a single data byte to a Slave. This description is quite abstract, a
more detailed explanation follows later in this section. A simple code example implementing the desired
behavior is also presented.
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