CAT24C32

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Doc. No. 1101, Rev. G

© 2007 by Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc.

Characteristics subject to change without notice

POWER-ON RESET (POR)

Each CAT24C32 incorporates Power-On Reset (POR)

circuitry which protects the internal logic against powering

up in the wrong state. The device will power up into

below the POR trigger level. This bi-directional POR

behavior protects the device against ‘brown-out’ failure

following a temporary loss of power.

PIN DESCRIPTION

SCL: The Serial Clock input pin accepts the clock signal

generated by the Master.

SDA: The Serial Data I/O pin accepts input data and

delivers output data. In transmit mode, this pin is open

drain. Data is acquired on the positive edge, and is

delivered on the negative edge of SCL.

dress that must be matched by the corresponding Slave

address bits. The Address inputs are hard-wired HIGH

or LOW allowing for up to eight devices to be used

(cascaded) on the same bus. When left floating, these

pins are pulled LOW internally.

WP: When pulled HIGH, the Write Protect input pin

inhibits all write operations. When left floating, this pin

is pulled LOW internally.

FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION

The CAT24C32 supports the Inter-Integrated Circuit

Master device, which provides the clock and directs bus

traffic, and Slave devices which execute requests. The

CAT24C32 operates as a Slave device. Both Master

and Slave can transmit or receive, but only the Master

can assign those roles.

Master provides the clock to the SCL line, and either the

Master or the Slaves drive the SDAline.A‘0’is transmitted

by pulling a line LOW and a ‘1’ by letting it stay HIGH.

Data transfer may be initiated only when the bus is not

busy (see A.C. Characteristics). During data transfer,

SDA must remain stable while SCL is HIGH.

START/STOP Condition

An SDA transition while SCL is HIGH creates a START

or STOP condition (Figure 1). The START consists of a

HIGH to LOW SDAtransition, while SCLis HIGH.Absent

the START, a Slave will not respond to the Master. The

STOP completes all commands, and consists of a LOW

to HIGH SDA transition, while SCL is HIGH.

Device Addressing

The Master addresses a Slave by creating a START

condition and then broadcasting an 8-bit Slave address.

For the CAT24C32, the first four bits of the Slave address

must match the logic state of the similarly named input

pins. The R/W

pins. The R/

pins. The R/

bit tells the Slave whether the Master

W

W

intends to read (1) or write (0) data (Figure 2).

Acknowledge

the bus, the transmitter releases the SDA line, allow-

ing the receiver to respond. The receiver then either

acknowledges (ACK) by pulling SDA LOW, or does not

acknowledge (NoACK) by letting SDAstay HIGH (Figure

3). Bus timing is illustrated in Figure 4.