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Serial Acknowledge
Acknowledge is a software convention used to indi-
cate successful data transfer. The transmitting device,
either master or slave, will release the bus after trans-
mitting eight bits. During the ninth clock cycle, the
receiver will pull the SDA line LOW to acknowledge
that it received the eight bits of data. See Figure 9.
The device will respond with an acknowledge after
recognition of a start condition and if the correct
Device Identifier and Select bits are contained in the
Slave Address Byte. If a write operation is selected,
the device will respond with an acknowledge after the
receipt of each subsequent eight bit word. The device
will acknowledge all incoming data and address bytes,
except for the Slave Address Byte when the Device
Identifier and/or Select bits are incorrect.
In the read mode, the device will transmit eight bits of
data, release the SDA line, then monitor the line for an
acknowledge. If an acknowledge is detected and no
stop condition is generated by the master, the device
will continue to transmit data. The device will terminate
further data transmissions if an acknowledge is not
detected. The master must then issue a stop condition
to return the device to Standby mode and place the
device into a known state.
Serial Write Operations
Byte Write
For a write operation, the device requires the Slave
Address Byte and a Word Address Byte. This gives
the master access to any one of the words in the array.
After receipt of the Word Address Byte, the device
responds with an acknowledge, and awaits the next
eight bits of data. After receiving the 8 bits of the Data
Byte, the device again responds with an acknowledge.
The master then terminates the transfer by generating
a stop condition, at which time the device begins the
internal write cycle to the nonvolatile memory. During
this internal write cycle, the device inputs are disabled, so
the device will not respond to any requests from the mas-
ter. The SDA output is at high impedance. See Figure 10.
A write to a protected block of memory will suppress
the acknowledge bit.
Figure 9. Acknowledge Response From Receiver
Figure 10. Byte Write Sequence
Page Write
The device is capable of a page write operation. It is
initiated in the same manner as the byte write opera-
tion; but instead of terminating the write cycle after the
first data byte is transferred, the master can transmit
Data Output from
Transmitter
Data Output
from Receiver
81 9
Start Acknowledge
SCL from
Master
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Slave
Address
Byte
Address
Data
A
C
K
A
C
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A
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SDA Bus
Signals from
the Slave
Signals from
the Master
0
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an unlimited number of 8-bit bytes. After the receipt of
each byte, the device will respond with an acknowl-
edge, and the address is internally incremented by
one. The page address remains constant. When the
counter reaches the end of the page, it “rolls over” and
goes back to0 on the same page.
This means that the master can write 16 bytes to the
page starting at any location on that page. If the mas-
ter begins writing at location 10, and loads 12 bytes,
then the first 6 bytes are written to locations 10
through 15, and the last 6 bytes are written to locations
0 through 5. Afterwards, the address counter would
point to location 6 of the page that was just written. If
the master supplies more than 16 bytes of data, then
new data overwrites the previous data, one byte at a
time.
The master terminates the Data Byte loading by issuing
a stop condition, which causes the device to begin the
nonvolatile write cycle. As with the byte write operation,
all inputs are disabled until completion of the internal
write cycle. See Figure 11 for the address, acknowl-
edge, and data transfer sequence.
Stops and Write Modes
Stop conditions that terminate write operations must
be sent by the master after sending at least 1 full data
byte plus the subsequent ACK signal. If a stop is
issued in the middle of a data byte, or before 1 full data
byte plus its associated ACK is sent, then the device
will reset itself without performing the write. The con-
tents of the array will not be effected.
Acknowledge Polling
The disabling of the inputs during high voltage cycles
can be used to take advantage of the typical 5ms write
cycle time. Once the stop condition is issued to indi-
cate the end of the master’s byte load operation, the
device initiates the internal high voltage cycle.
Acknowledge polling can be initiated immediately. To
do this, the master issues a start condition followed by
the Slave Address Byte for a write or read operation. If
the device is still busy with the high voltage cycle then
no ACK will be returned. If the device has completed
the write operation, an ACK will be returned and the
host can then proceed with the read or write operation.
See Figure 13.
Serial Read Operations
Read operations are initiated in the same manner as
write operations with the exception that the R/W
bit of
the Slave Address Byte is set to one. There are three
basic read operations: Current Address Reads, Ran-
dom Reads, and Sequential Reads.
Figure 11. Page Write Operation
Figure 12. Writing 12 bytes to a 16-byte page starting at location 10.
S
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S
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Slave
Address
Byte
Address
Data
(n)
A
C
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A
C
K
A
C
K
SDA Bus
Signals from
the Slave
Signals from
the Master
0
Data
(1)
A
C
K
(1 n 16)
1010 00
address
address
10
5 Bytes
n-1
7 Bytes
address
= 6
address pointer
ends here
Addr = 7
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Current Address Read
Internally the device contains an address counter that
maintains the address of the last word read incre-
mented by one. Therefore, if the last read was to
address n, the next read operation would access data
from address n+1. On power-up, the address of the
address counter is undefined, requiring a read or write
operation for initialization.
Upon receipt of the Slave Address Byte with the R/W
bit set to one, the device issues an acknowledge and
then transmits the eight bits of the Data Byte. The
master terminates the read operation when it does not
respond with an acknowledge during the ninth clock
and then issues a stop condition. See figure 15 for the
address, acknowledge, and data transfer sequence.
Figure 13. Acknowledge Polling Sequence
It should be noted that the ninth clock cycle of the read
operation is not a “don’t care.” To terminate a read
operation, the master must either issue a stop condi-
tion during the ninth cycle or hold SDA HIGH during
the ninth clock cycle and then issue a stop condition.
Random Read
Random read operation allows the master to access any
memory location in the array. Prior to issuing the Slave
Address Byte with the R/W
bit set to one, the master
must first perform a “dummy” write operation. The master
issues the start condition and the Slave Address Byte,
receives an acknowledge, then issues the Word Address
Bytes. After acknowledging receipts of the Word Address
Bytes, the master immediately issues another start con-
dition and the Slave Address Byte with the R/W
bit set to
one. This is followed by an acknowledge from the device
and then by the eight bit word. The master terminates the
read operation by not responding with an acknowledge
and then issuing a stop condition. See Figure 16 for the
address, acknowledge, and data transfer sequence.
A similar operation called “Set Current Address” where
the device will perform this operation if a stop is issued
instead of the second start is shown in Figure 15. The
device will go into standby mode after the stop and all
bus activity will be ignored until a start is detected.
This operation loads the new address into the address
counter. The next Current Address Read operation will
read from the newly loaded address. This operation
could be useful if the master knows the next address it
needs to read, but is not ready for the data.
Sequential Read
Sequential reads can be initiated as either a current
address read or random address read. The first Data
Byte is transmitted as with the other modes; however,
the master now responds with an acknowledge, indicat-
ing it requires additional data. The device continues to
output data for each acknowledge received. The master
terminates the read operation by not responding with an
acknowledge and then issuing a stop condition.
The data output is sequential, with the data from
address n followed by the data from address n + 1. The
address counter for read operations increments through
all page and column addresses, allowing the entire
memory contents to be serially read during one opera-
tion. At the end of the address space the counter “rolls
over” to address 0000h and the device continues to out-
put data for each acknowledge received. See Figure 17
for the acknowledge and data transfer sequence.
ACK
Returned?
Issue Slave Address
Byte (Read or Write)
Byte Load Completed
by Issuing STOP.
Enter ACK Polling
Issue STOP
Issue START
NO
YES
High Voltage Cycle
Complete. Continue
Command Sequence?
Issue STOP
NO
Continue Normal
Read or Write
Command Sequence
PROCEED
YES
X40430, X40431, X40434, X40435

X40430V14I-A

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