5 iPort Message Manager

The iPort Message Manager supports I2C Master and Slave, Transmit and Receive activities for all MCC I2C Bus host adapters, allowing a PC to become an I2C Master or Slave device, transmitting or receiving I2C messages between the PC and one or more I2C devices across an I2C Bus.

Main Application

The Message Manager is designed to be a simple application for experimenting with I2C messages. Message Manager provides methods to:

1.Set the I2C adapter’s own I2C Slave address, General Call Enable, and other operating parameters.

2.Master Transmit ASCII text or Hex (00...FF) data to a specified I2C Slave Receiver device.

3.Master Receive data from a specified I2C Slave device.

4.Perform Master Read after Write operations.

5.Slave Transmit data to a requesting I2C Master device.

6.Display Master or Slave Receive data in hexadecimal or ASCII.

7.Display I2C Bus communication events.

8.Assert or release the INT signal (on supported adapters only).

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