IS31FL3196
Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. — www.issi.com
Rev. C, 03/21/2017
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
I2C INTERFACE
The IS31FL3196 uses a serial bus, which conforms to
the I2C protocol, to control the chip’s functions with two
wires: SCL and SDA. The IS31FL3196 has a 7-bit slave
address (A7:A1), followed by the R/W bit, A0. Since
IS31FL3196 only supports write operations, A0 must
always be “0”. The value of bits A1 and A2 are decided
by the connection of the AD pin.
The complete slave address is:
Table 1 Slave Address (Write only):
Bit A7:A3 A2:A1 A0
Value 11001
AD
0
AD connected to GND, AD = 00;
AD connected to VCC, AD = 11;
AD connected to SCL, AD = 01;
AD connected to SDA, AD = 10;
The SCL line is uni-directional. The SDA line is
bi-directional (open-collector) with a pull-up resistor
(typically 4.7k). The maximum clock frequency
specified by the I2C standard is 400kHz. In this
discussion, the master is the microcontroller and the
slave is the IS31FL3196.
The timing diagram for the I2C is shown in Figure 3.
The SDA is latched in on the stable high level of the
SCL. When there is no interface activity, the SDA line
should be held high.
The “START” signal is generated by lowering the SDA
signal while the SCL signal is high. The start signal will
alert all devices attached to the I2C bus to check the
incoming address against their own chip address.
The 8-bit chip address is sent next, most significant bit
first. Each address bit must be stable while the SCL
level is high.
After the last bit of the chip address is sent, the master
checks for the IS31FL3196’s acknowledge. The
master releases the SDA line high (through a pull-up
resistor). Then the master sends an SCL pulse. If the
IS31FL3196 has received the address correctly, then it
holds the SDA line low during the SCL pulse. If the SDA
line is not low, then the master should send a “STOP”
signal (discussed later) and abort the transfer.
Following acknowledge of IS31FL3196, the register
address byte is sent, most significant bit first.
IS31FL3196 must generate another acknowledge
indicating that the register address has been received.
Then 8-bit of data byte are sent next, most significant
bit first. Each data bit should be valid while the SCL
level is stable high. After the data byte is sent, the
IS31FL3196 must generate another acknowledge to
indicate that the data was received.
The “STOP” signal ends the transfer. To signal “STOP”,
the SDA signal goes high while the SCL signal is high.
Figure 3 Interface Timing
Figure 4 Bit Transfer
