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CAT5241
WIPER CONTROL AND DATA REGISTERS
Wiper Control Register (WCR)
The CAT5241 contains four 6-bit Wiper Control
Registers, one for each potentiometer. The Wiper
Control Register output is decoded to select one of 64
switches along its resistor array. The contents of the
WCR can be altered in four ways: it may be written by
the host via Write Wiper Control Register instruction; it
may be written by transferring the contents of one of
four associated Data Registers via the XFR Data
Register instruction, it can be modified one step at a
time by the Increment/decrement instruction (see
Instruction section for more details). Finally, it is
loaded with the content of its data register zero (DR0)
upon power-up.
The Wiper Control Register is a volatile register that
loses its contents when the CAT5241 is powered-
down. Although the register is automatically loaded
with the value in DR0 upon power-up, this may be
different from the value present at power-down.
four Data Registers and the associated Wiper Control
Register. Any data changes in one of the Data Regis–
ters is a non-volatile operation and will take a
maximum of 5ms.
If the application does not require storage of multiple
settings for the potentiometer, the Data Registers can
be used as standard memory locations for system
parameters or user preference data.
INSTRUCTIONS
Four of the nine instructions are three bytes in length.
These instructions are:
— Read Wiper Control Register – read the current
wiper position of the selected potentiometer in
the WCR
— Write Wiper Control Register – change current
wiper position in the WCR of the selected
potentiometer
— Read Data Register – read the contents of the
selected Data Register
Data Registers (DR)
Each potentiometer has four 6-bit non-volatile Data
Registers. These can be read or written directly by the
host. Data can also be transferred between any of the
— Write Data Register – write a new value to the
selected Data Register
The basic sequence of the three byte instructions is
illustrated in Figure 8. These three-byte instructions
Table 3. Instruction Set
Instruction Set
Instruction
WCR1 WCR0
I3 I2 I1 I0 / P1 / P0 R1 R0 ^Operations
Read Wiper Control
Register
1 0 0 1 1/0
1/0
0
0
Read the contents of the Wiper Control
Register pointed to by P1-P0
Write Wiper Control
Register
1 0 1 0 1/0
1/0
0
0
Write new value to the Wiper Control
Register pointed to by P1-P0
Read Data Register
1 0 1 1 1/0
1/0
1/0
1/0
Read the contents of the Data Register
pointed to by P1-P0 and R1-R0
Write Data Register
1 1 0 0 1/0
1/0
1/0
1/0
Write new value to the Data Register
pointed to by P1-P0 and R1-R0
XFR Data Register to
Wiper Control Register
1 1 0 1 1/0
Transfer the contents of the Data Register
1/0 1/0 1/0 pointed to by P1-P0 and R1-R0 to its
associated Wiper Control Register
XFR Wiper Control
Register to Data Register
1 1 1 0 1/0
Transfer the contents of the Wiper Control
1/0 1/0 1/0 Register pointed to by P1-P0 to the Data
Register pointed to by R1-R0
Global XFR Data Registers
to Wiper Control Registers
0
0
0
1
0
Transfer the contents of the Data Registers
0 1/0 1/0 pointed to by R1-R0 of all four pots to their
respective Wiper Control Registers
Global XFR Wiper Control
Registers to Data Register
100
0
0
Transfer the contents of both Wiper Control
0 1/0 1/0 Registers to their respective data Registers
pointed to by R1-R0 of all four pots
Increment/Decrement
Wiper Control Register
0 0 1 0 1/0
1/0
0
0
Enable Increment/decrement of the
Control Latch pointed to by P1-P0
Note: 1/0 = data is one or zero
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