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Product data sheet Rev. 5 — 31 March 2014 8 of 30
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PCA9548A
8-channel I
2
C-bus switch with reset
6.5 Voltage translation
The pass gate transistors of the PCA9548A are constructed such that the V
DD
voltage can
be used to limit the maximum voltage that will be passed from one I
2
C-bus to another.
Figure 7 shows the voltage characteristics of the pass gate transistors (note that the
PCA9548A is only tested at the points specified in Section 11 “
Static characteristics” of
this data sheet). In order for the PCA9548A to act as a voltage translator, the V
o(sw)
voltage should be equal to, or lower than the lowest bus voltage. For example, if the main
bus was running at 5 V, and the downstream buses were 3.3 V and 2.7 V, then V
o(sw)
should be equal to or below 2.7 V to effectively clamp the downstream bus voltages.
Looking at Figure 7
, we see that V
o(sw)(max)
will be at 2.7 V when the PCA9548A supply
voltage is 3.5 V or lower, so the PCA9548A supply voltage could be set to 3.3 V. Pull-up
resistors can then be used to bring the bus voltages to their appropriate levels (see
Figure 14
).
More Information can be found in Application Note AN262: PCA954X family of I
2
C/SMBus
multiplexers and switches.
(1) maximum
(2) typical
(3) minimum
Fig 7. Pass gate voltage versus supply voltage
V
DD
(V)
2.0 5.54.53.0 4.0
002aaa964
3.0
2.0
4.0
5.0
V
o(sw)
(V)
1.0
3.5 5.02.5
(1)
(2)
(3)