24C01C

© 1997 Microchip Technology Inc.

Preliminary

DS21201A-page 7

6.0

WRITE OPERATIONS

6.1

Byte Write

Following the start signal from the master, the device

code(4 bits), the chip select bits (3 bits), and the R/W

bit which is a logic low is placed onto the bus by the

master transmitter. The device will acknowledge this

control byte during the ninth clock pulse. The next byte

transmitted by the master is the word address and will

be written into the address pointer of the 24C01C. After

receiving

another

acknowledge

signal

from

the

24C01C the master device will transmit the data word

to be written into the addressed memory location. The

24C01C acknowledges again and the master gener-

ates a stop condition. This initiates the internal write

cycle, and during this time the 24C01C will not generate

acknowledge signals (Figure 6-1).

6.2

Page Write

The write control byte, word address and the first data

byte are transmitted to the 24C01C in the same way as

in a byte write. But instead of generating a stop condi-

tion, the master transmits up to 15 additional data bytes

to the 24C01C which are temporarily stored in the on-

chip page buffer and will be written into the memory

after the master has transmitted a stop condition. After

the receipt of each word, the four lower order address

pointer bits are internally incremented by one. The

higher order four bits of the word address remains con-

stant. If the master should transmit more than 16 bytes

prior to generating the stop condition, the address

counter will roll over and the previously received data

will be overwritten. As with the byte write operation,

once the stop condition is received an internal write

cycle will begin (Figure 6-2).

FIGURE 6-1:

BYTE WRITE

FIGURE 6-2:

PAGE WRITE

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P

BUS ACTIVITY

MASTER

SDA LINE

BUS ACTIVITY

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T

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O

P

CONTROL

BYTE

WORD

ADDRESS

DATA

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BUS ACTIVITY

MASTER

SDA LINE

BUS ACTIVITY

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R

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CONTROL

BYTE

WORD

ADDRESS (n)

DATA n

DATA n + 15

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DATA n +1