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<concept id="GUID-C661BFA4-6C39-476A-8DE0-08E18AA0F548" xml:lang="en"><title>IIC Overview</title><shortdesc>Provides a basic summary of the Inter-Integrated Circuit |
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(IIC) platform service. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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<p>The IIC is a technology-independent interface for serial bus technologies. |
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The IIC supports multi-master and multi-slave serial interfaces, used |
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by the low power peripherals to exchange control information between |
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devices attached to the bus. The IIC supports different modes of data |
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transfer.</p> |
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<section id="GUID-E67D9AC2-DD3D-48FD-9E48-B79BC73FFE6A-GENID-1-2-1-10-1-5-1-6-1-1-3-1-3-2"><title>What |
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is the IIC platform service</title> <p>The IIC platform |
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service provides a set of functions for device drivers to be able |
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to use serial interfaces without needing to know the details of the |
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actual chipset implementing the particular serial interface technology, |
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for example I2C or SPI. The client will however need to understand |
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how to configure headers for the particular interface technology.</p><p>For the technical details about IIC, see the <xref href="GUID-DCDD68C7-8EBE-4E91-A983-076460B2C2F3.dita">IIC Quick Start</xref>.</p> </section> |
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<section id="GUID-C0FC9485-8B8C-4F4B-99C0-DAA48FB5E85D"><title>Need |
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for the IIC platform service</title><p>IIC is used in a number of |
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different areas in the OS. These may include:</p><ul> |
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<li><p>controlling flash memory devices</p></li> |
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<li><p>controlling the LCD</p></li> |
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<li><p>reading data from the Real Time Clock.</p></li> |
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</ul><p>The IIC platform service gives a common set of functions to |
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initiate a connection and to transfer the data.</p></section> |
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<section id="GUID-CEAC0FBB-77F6-48FF-AB70-0E2AB78CA972"><title>IIC |
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users</title><p>The IIC documentation covers two types of user: </p><p><ul> |
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<li><p>those that want to write device drivers </p></li> |
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<li><p>those that need to write SHAI implementation code to interface |
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to their particular IIC chipset.</p></li> |
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</ul></p></section> |
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<section id="GUID-0D17421E-77CC-47CC-A50A-DE9F8E7020BF"><title>Limitations</title><p>IIC is an abstraction interface for several different serial bus |
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communication technologies. There may be features of a particular |
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technology that are not available through IIC. IIC imposes no throughput |
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limitations. </p></section> |
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