X9258 Datasheet, PDF (8/22 Pages) Xicor Inc. – Quad Digital Controlled Potentiometers (XDCP)

X9258
Figure 8. Detailed Potentiometer Block Diagram Detailed Operation
Serial Data Path
From Interface
Circuitry
Register 0
Register 2
If WCR = 00[H] then V_W/R_W = V_L/R_L
If WCR = FF[H] then V_W/R_W = V_H/R_H
Serial
BUS
Input
C
Register 1
o
u
8
8
Parallel
BUS
Input
n
t
e
r
Register 3
Wiper
Counter
D
Register
e
(WCR)
c
o
d
e
UP/DN
INC/DEC
Logic
UP/DN
Modified SCL
CLK
V_H/R_H
V_L/R_L
V_W/R_W
All DCP potentiometers share the serial interface and
share a common architecture. Each potentiometer has
a Wiper Counter Register and four Data Registers. A
detailed discussion of the register organization and
array operation follows.
Wiper Counter Register
The X9258 contains four Wiper Counter Registers,
one for each DCP potentiometer. The Wiper Counter
Register can be envisioned as a 8-bit parallel and
serial load counter with its outputs decoded to select
one of 256 switches along its resistor array. The
contents of the WCR can be altered in four ways: it
may be written directly by the host via the Write Wiper
Counter Register instruction (serial load); it may be
written indirectly by transferring the contents of one of
four associated Data Registers via the XFR Data
Register instruction (parallel load); it can be modified
one step at a time by the Increment/Decrement
instruction. Finally, it is loaded with the contents of its
data register zero (R0) upon power-up.
The WCR is a volatile register; that is, its contents are
lost when the X9258 is powered-down. Although the
register is automatically loaded with the value in R0
upon power-up, it should be noted this may be
different from the value present at power-down.
Data Registers
Each potentiometer has four nonvolatile Data
Registers. These can be read or written directly by the
host and data can be transferred between any of the
four Data Registers and the WCR. It should be noted
all operations changing data in one of these registers
is a nonvolatile operation and will take a maximum of
10ms.
If the application does not require storage of multiple
settings for the potentiometer, these registers can be
used as regular memory locations that could possibly
store system parameters or user preference data.
REV 1.1.7 2/4/03
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