MAX8688
Digital Power-Supply Controller/Monitor
with PMBus Interface
______________________________________________________________________________________ 23
The MAX8688 SMBus interface does not support pack-
et error checking (PEC). It does not support the 35ms
timeout either. Therefore, to reset the MAX8688 SMBus
interface, the host controller has to hold RST low for
t
SMB_RST
. This resets the SMBus interface. See the
RST
Operation
section.
PMBus Protocol Support
The MAX8688 supports a subset of the commands
defined in the Power System Management Protocol
Specification Part II - Command Language Revision
1.0. For detailed specifications and the complete list of
PMBus commands, refer to Part II of the PMBus specifi-
cation available at www.PMBus.org
. The supported
PMBus commands and the corresponding MAX8688
behavior are described in this document.
All data values are represented in DIRECT format,
unless otherwise stated. Whenever the resolution of the
data is less than the number of bits required, data are
right justified (only the lower bits are significant) and
the higher order bits are zero-padded, unless otherwise
stated. For example, for a 2-byte value where the
MAX8688 only has 12-bit data to return, the MAX8688
returns data in the lower 12 bits and zero-padded the
upper 4 bits. Whenever the PMBus specification refers
to the “PMBus device,” it is referring to MAX8688 oper-
ating in conjuction with a POL device. While the com-
mand may call for turning on or off the PMBus device,
the MAX8688 always remains on to continue communi-
cating with the PMBus master and the MAX8688 trans-
fers the command to the POL device accordingly.
Data Format
Voltage data for commanding or reading the output
voltage or related parameters (such as the overvoltage
threshold) are presented in DIRECT format. DIRECT
format data is a 2-byte, two’s complement binary value.
DIRECT format data may be used with any command
that sends or reads a parametric value. The DIRECT
format uses an equation and defined coefficients to cal-
culate the desired values. The coefficients used by the
MAX8688 can be found in Table 4.
NO. OF