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Digital interfaces
5
Digital interfaces
LIS331DL
The registers embedded inside the LIS331DL may be accessed through both the I²C and
SPI serial interfaces. The latter may be SW configured to operate either in 3-wire or 4-wire
interface mode.
The serial interfaces are mapped onto the same pads. To select/exploit the I²C interface, CS
line must be tied high (i.e connected to Vdd_IO).
Table 8. Serial interface pin description
Pin name
Pin description
CS
SCL/SPC
SDA/SDI/SDO
SDO/SA0
SPI enable
I²C/SPI mode selection (1: I²C mode; 0: SPI enabled)
I²C Serial Clock (SCL)
SPI Serial Port Clock (SPC)
I²C Serial Data (SDA)
SPI Serial Data Input (SDI)
3-wire Interface Serial Data Output (SDO)
SPI Serial Data Output (SDO)
I²C less significant bit of the device address (SA0)
5.1
I²C serial interface
The LIS331DL I²C is a bus slave. The I²C is employed to write data into registers whose
content can also be read back.
The relevant I²C terminology is given in the table below.
Table 9. Serial interface pin description
Term
Description
Transmitter
Receiver
Master
Slave
The device which sends data to the bus
The device which receives data from the bus
The device which initiates a transfer, generates clock signals and terminates a
transfer
The device addressed by the master
There are two signals associated with the I²C bus: the serial clock line (SCL) and the Serial
DAta line (SDA). The latter is a bidirectional line used for sending and receiving the data
to/from the interface. Both the lines are connected to Vdd_IO through a pull-up resistor
embedded inside the LIS331DL. When the bus is free both the lines are high.
The I²C interface is compliant with fast mode (400 kHz) I²C standards as well as with the
normal mode.
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