Philips Semiconductors

Product specification

PCA9544

1999 Oct 07

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CHANNEL SELECTION

A SC0x/SD0x downstream pair, or channel, is selected by the

contents of the control register. This register is written after the

PCA9544 has been addressed. The 3 LSBs of the control byte are

used to determine which channel is to be selected. When a channel

is selected, the channel will become active after a stop condition has

be in a HIGH state when the channel is made active, so that no

false conditions are generated at the time of connection.

CONTROL BYTE

SELECTED

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

CHANNEL

X

X

X

X

X

0

X

X

none

X

X

X

X

X

1

0

0

0 (SC0/SD0)

X

X

X

X

X

1

0

1

1 (SC1/SD1)

X

X

X

X

X

1

1

0

2 (SC2/SD2)

X

X

X

X

X

1

1

1

3 (SC3/SD3)

CONTROL REGISTER

INT2 INT1 INT0

B2

B1

B0

Channel select bits

Interrupt bits

INT3

SW00386

X

(read only)

(read/write)

6

5

4

2

1

0

7

3

POWER-ON RESET

During power-up, the control register defaults to all zeroes causing

all the channels to be deselected.

INTERRUPT HANDLING

The PCA9544 provides 4 interrupt inputs, one for each channel and

one open drain interrupt output. When an interrupt is generated by any

device, it will be detected by the PCA9544 and the interrupt output

will be driven LOW. The channel need not be active for detection of

the interrupt. A bit is also set in the control byte. Bits 4 – 7 of the

control byte correspond to channels 0 – 3 of the PCA9544,

respectively. Therefore, if an interrupt is generated by any device

connected to channel 2, then bit 6 will be set in the control register.

Likewise, an interrupt on any device connected to channel 3 would

cause bit 7 of the control register to be set. The master can then

address the PCA 9544 and read the contents of the control byte to

determine which channel contains the device generating the interrupt.

The master can then reconfigure the PCA9544 to select this

channel, and locate the device generating the interrupt and clear it.

The interrupt clears when the device originating the interrupt clears.

It should be noted that more than one device can be providing an

interrupt on a channel, so it is up to the master to ensure that all

devices on a channel are interrogated for an interrupt.

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

INTERRUPTING

CHANNEL

0

0

0

1

X

X

X

X

0 (SC0/SD0)

0

0

1

0

X

X

X

X

1 (SC1/SD1)

0

1

0

0

X

X

X

X

2 (SC2/SD2)

1

0

0

0

X

X

X

X

3 (SC3/SD3)