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Product data sheet Rev. 1 — 9 March 2011 10 of 18
NXP Semiconductors
PCA9621
65 mA 8-bit 2-wire bus output port
Figure 12 shows a simple 7-segment display drive arrangement. All of the 7 segments
plus decimal point can be driven from a single PCA9621. By using the address pins, up to
8 digits can be addressed from a single bus. When running at 1 MHz, all 8 digits can be
updated in less than 0.2 ms.
Further, by using the arrangement described above and shown in Figure 11
, the number
of digits driven may be increased significantly.
Figure 13 shows the PCA9621 used in conjunction with other NXP Semiconductors
2-wire bus buffers to form a multiplexer arrangement. Using the PCA9621 to control
multiples of either PCA9521 or PCA9522 produces an isolating bus switch/multiplexer
that has fully compliant I
2
C-bus I/O levels, low offset voltages, and large noise margins.
Using PCA9522 in this arrangement additionally provides ‘hot-swap’ capability.
Fig 12. PCA9621 as 7-segment display driver
Address lines allow this structure to be repeated 8 more times.
(1) Or PCA9525 (400 pF), or PCA9605 (4000 pF), or PCA9646 (4 × 4000 pF).
Fig 13. PCA9621 as part of a fully isolating I
2
C-bus multiplexer
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SCL
SDA
PCA9621
V
DD
P0
P1
U1
RESET
P2
P3
A[2:0]
3
P4
P5
P6
P7
R1 R2
SCL
SDA
5 V
repeat up to 8 times using
address pins on PCA9621
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SCL
SDA
PCA9621
V
DD
P0
P1
U1
RESET
P2
P3
A[2:0]
3
P4
P5
P6
P7
SA1
SB1
V
CC
EN
R1 R2
SCL
SDA
3.3 V
PCA9521
(1)
U2
SA2
SB2
400 pF
(1)
SCLC
SDAC
V
CC
EN
PCA9522
(1)
U3
SCLB
SDAB
400 pF
(1)
3.3 V
RDY
multiple
isolated
buses