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Embedded Linux®: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing
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Embedded Linux®: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing

by Ph.D. Craig Hollabaugh
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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I2C Communication with the Philips Semiconductor SAA1064

The Project Trailblazer engineers plan to use the Philips Semiconductor SAA1064 to interface four seven-segment LED displays to a target board that uses I2C bus signaling. An I2C bus requires only two bidirectional signal lines: serial data (SDA) and serial clock (SCL). This bus supports multiple slave devices through software addressing in which each bus device has a unique address. I2C communication is 8-bit communication, with the data receiver acknowledging the reception of each transferred byte. Bus devices can connect or disconnect at any time, without restarting the master. Philips offers complete and thorough I2C documentation.3

Up to four SAA1064 can exist on a single I2C bus. ...

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