VIPER Technical Manual

Detailed hardware description

 

 

I2C

The PXA255 I2C interface is brought out to the COMs connector PL4, see PL473HCOMS ports, page 89376H, for connection details.

The I2C unit supports a fast mode operation of 400Kbits/s and a standard mode of 100Kbits/s.

Fast-mode devices are downward-compatible and can communicate with standard- mode devices in a 0 to 100Kbits/s I2C-bus system. As standard-mode devices, however, are not upward compatible, they should not be incorporated in a fast-mode I2C-bus system as they cannot follow the higher transfer rate and unpredictable states will occur.

The I2C unit does not support the hardware general call, 10-bit addressing or CBUS compatibility.

Keep bus loads below 200pF.

TPM

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The VIPER provides the option for an Atmel AT97SC3201 Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which provides full TCG/TCPA V1.1b compatibility. For further details please

contact Eurotech Ltd (see Appendix74H75H377HA – Contacting Eurotech, page 101378H) for purchasing information.

When the TPM is fitted OUT6 and OUT7 from the general purpose I/O interface are not available.

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