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Product data sheet Rev. 7 — 30 May 2013 19 of 40
NXP Semiconductors
PCA9674; PCA9674A
Remote 8-bit I/O expander for Fm+ I
2
C-bus with interrupt
9.3 Acknowledge
The number of data bytes transferred between the START and the STOP conditions from
transmitter to receiver is not limited. Each byte of eight bits is followed by one
acknowledge bit (see Figure 19
). The acknowledge bit is an active LOW level (generated
by the receiving device) that indicates to the transmitter that the data transfer was
successful.
A slave receiver which is addressed must generate an acknowledge after the reception of
each byte. Also a master must generate an acknowledge after the reception of each byte
that has been clocked out of the slave transmitter. The device that wants to issue an
acknowledge bit has to pull down the SDA line during the acknowledge clock pulse, so
that the SDA line is stable LOW during the HIGH period of the acknowledge bit related
clock pulse; set-up and hold times must be taken into account.
A master receiver must signal an end of data to the transmitter by not generating an
acknowledge on the last byte that has been clocked out of the slave. In this event, the
transmitter must leave the data line HIGH to enable the master to generate a STOP
condition.
Fig 18. System configuration
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MASTER
TRANSMITTER/
RECEIVER
SLAVE
RECEIVER
SLAVE
TRANSMITTER/
RECEIVER
MASTER
TRANSMITTER
MASTER
TRANSMITTER/
RECEIVER
SDA
SCL
I
2
C-BUS
MULTIPLEXER
SLAVE
Fig 19. Acknowledgement on the I
2
C-bus
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S
START
condition
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clock pulse for
acknowledgement
not acknowledge
acknowledge
data output
by transmitter
data output
by receiver
SCL from master