Datasheet

PCA9555_8 © NXP B.V. 2009. All rights reserved.
Product data sheet Rev. 08 — 22 October 2009 9 of 34
NXP Semiconductors
PCA9555
16-bit I
2
C-bus and SMBus I/O port with interrupt
6.5 Bus transactions
6.5.1 Writing to the port registers
Data is transmitted to the PCA9555 by sending the device address and setting the least
significant bit to a logic 0 (see Figure 8 “PCA9555 device address”). The command byte is
sent after the address and determines which register will receive the data following the
command byte.
The eight registers within the PCA9555 are configured to operate as four register pairs.
The four pairs are Input Ports, Output Ports, Polarity Inversion Ports, and Configuration
Ports. After sending data to one register, the next data byte will be sent to the other
register in the pair (see Figure 10 and Figure 11). For example, if the first byte is sent to
Output Port 1 (register 3), then the next byte will be stored in Output Port 0 (register 2).
There is no limitation on the number of data bytes sent in one write transmission. In this
way, each 8-bit register may be updated independently of the other registers.
At power-on reset, all registers return to default values.
Fig 9. Simplified schematic of I/Os
V
DD
I/O pin
output port
register data
configuration
register
DQ
CK Q
data from
shift register
write
configuration
pulse
output port
register
DQ
CK
write pulse
polarity inversion
register
DQ
CK
data from
shift register
write polarity
pulse
input port
register
DQ
CK
read pulse
input port
register data
polarity
inversion
register data
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FF
data from
shift register
FF
FF
FF
Q1
Q2
V
SS
to INT
100 kΩ