Philips MIIC-201D/U manual

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Use the I2C Message Editor to:

1.Set I2C Address.

The I2C Address is the I2C slave address of the slave device being addressed on the bus. All slave addresses are displayed as even numbers (00...FE), representing the 7 most significant bits of the 8-bit slave address transmitted on the bus (aaaa aaa0).

The I2C adapter automatically supplies the 8th, least significant, Read/Write bit when it sends the slave address across the bus. For master write operations, the Read/Write bit is always transmitted as a logical 0 (aaaa aaa0). For master read operations, the Read/Write bit is always transmitted as a logical 1 (aaaa aaa1).

Use the I2C Address control to set the slave address of the slave device you want to address on the bus.

2.Set Message Read/Write Direction.

As a bus master device, the I2C adapter can write data to, or read data from, any device on the bus. Use the Msg Direction control to specify if the current message is a master write, or master read, operation. Upon making your selection, additional Write or Read parameters appear.

3.Specify Repeated Start Messages.

I2C Bus communications support an operation called Repeated Start. In this operation, a message is sent across the bus beginning with a Start Condition, but without a Stop Condition at the end of the message. The next message sent

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