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AT91SAM9260
30. Two-wire Interface (TWI)
30.1 Description
The Atmel Two-wire Interface (TWI) interconnects components on a unique two-wire bus, made
up of one clock line and one data line with speeds of up to 400 Kbits per second, based on a
byte-oriented transfer format. It can be used with any Atmel Two-wire Interface bus Serial
EEPROM and I²C compatible device such as Real Time Clock (RTC), Dot Matrix/Graphic LCD
Controllers and Temperature Sensor, to name but a few. The TWI is programmable as a master
or a slave with sequential or single-byte access. Multiple master capability is supported. Arbitra-
tion of the bus is performed internally and puts the TWI in slave mode automatically if the bus
arbitration is lost.
A configurable baud rate generator permits the output data rate to be adapted to a wide range of
core clock frequencies.
Below, Table 30-1 lists the compatibility level of the Atmel Two-wire Interface in Master Mode and
a full I2C compatible device.
Table 30-1. Atmel TWI compatibility with i2C Standard
I2C Standard
Atmel TWI
Standard Mode Speed (100 KHz)
Supported
Fast Mode Speed (400 KHz)
Supported
7 or 10 bits Slave Addressing
START BYTE⁽¹⁾
Supported
Not Supported
Repeated Start (Sr) Condition
Supported
ACK and NACK Management
Supported
Slope control and input filtering (Fast mode)
Not Supported
Clock stretching
Supported
Note: 1. START + b000000001 + Ack + Sr
30.2
Embedded Characteristics
• Master, MultiMaster and Slave modes supported
• General Call supported in Slave mode
30.3 List of Abbreviations
Table 30-2. Abbreviations
Abbreviation
TWI
A
NA
P
S
Sr
Description
Two-wire Interface
Acknowledge
Non Acknowledge
Stop
Start
Repeated Start
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