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1-Wire BUS SYSTEM

The 1-Wire bus is a system that has a single bus master and one or more slaves. The DS1920 behaves as a

slave. The discussion of this bus system is broken down into three topics: hardware configuration,

transaction sequence, and 1-Wire signaling (signal types and timing).

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

The 1-Wire bus has only a single line by definition; it is important that each device on the bus be able to

drive it at the appropriate time. To facilitate this, each device attached to the 1-Wire bus must have open-

drain or 3-state outputs. The 1-Wire port of the DS1920 (data contact) is open drain with an internal

circuit equivalent to that shown in Figure 8. A multidrop bus consists of a 1-Wire bus with multiple

slaves attached. The 1-Wire bus requires a pullup resistor of approximately 5k

Ω. The idle state for the

1-Wire bus is high. If for any reason a transaction needs to be suspended, the bus MUST be left in the idle

state if the transaction is to resume. If this does not occur and the bus is left low for more than 120

µs, one

or more of the devices on the bus will be reset.

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Figure 8

TRANSACTION SEQUENCE

The protocol for accessing the DS1920 via the 1-Wire port is as follows:

 Initialization

 ROM Function Command

 Memory/Control Function Command

 Transaction/Data

INITIALIZATION

All transactions on the 1-Wire bus begin with an initialization sequence. The initialization sequence

consists of a reset pulse transmitted by the bus master followed by presence pulse(s) transmitted by the

slave(s).

The presence pulse lets the bus master know that the DS1920 is on the bus and is ready to operate. For

more details, see the 1-Wire Signaling section.