AT90CAN128
Two-wire Serial Interface
Features
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Simple yet Powerful and Flexible Communication Interface, only Two Bus Lines Needed
Both Master and Slave Operation Supported
Device can Operate as Transmitter or Receiver
7-bit Address Space allows up to 128 Different Slave Addresses
Multi-master Arbitration Support
Up to 400 kHz Data Transfer Speed
Slew-rate Limited Output Drivers
Noise Suppression Circuitry Rejects Spikes on Bus Lines
Fully Programmable Slave Address with General Call Support
Address Recognition Causes Wake-up when AVR is in Sleep Mode
Two-wire Serial Interface The Two-wire Serial Interface (TWI) is ideally suited for typical microcontroller applica-
tions. The TWI protocol allows the systems designer to interconnect up to 128 different
Bus Definition
devices using only two bi-directional bus lines, one for clock (SCL) and one for data
(SDA). The only external hardware needed to implement the bus is a single pull-up
resistor for each of the TWI bus lines. All devices connected to the bus have individual
addresses, and mechanisms for resolving bus contention are inherent in the TWI
protocol.
Figure 90. TWI Bus Interconnection
Device 1
Device 3
Device 2
Device n
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VCC
R1
R2
SDA
SCL
TWI Terminology
The following definitions are frequently encountered in this section.
Table 88. TWI Terminology
Term
Description
Master
The device that initiates and terminates a transmission. The master also
generates the SCL clock
Slave
The device addressed by a master
Transmitter The device placing data on the bus
Receiver The device reading data from the bus
Electrical Interconnection
As depicted in Figure 90, both bus lines are connected to the positive supply voltage
through pull-up resistors. The bus drivers of all TWI-compliant devices are open-drain or
open-collector. This implements a wired-AND function which is essential to the opera-
tion of the interface. A low level on a TWI bus line is generated when one or more TWI
devices output a zero. A high level is output when all TWI devices tri-state their outputs,
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