2009-05-30 09:46:04 bfin i2c twi block read and write query
Appalayagari Sreedhar (INDIA)
Message: 74819
Hi,
I am working with BF527 and in my hardware i have two i2c devices connected to the TWI of BF527.
I have 2 questions.
1 question:
The i2c protocol for block writing for one of the slave device is as follows
S Addr Wr [A] subreg [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
the smbus protocl for block write is as below. from the documentation
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The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes up to 32 bytes to
a device, to a designated register that is specified through the
Comm byte. The amount of data is specified in the Count byte.
S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
The smbus black write api has "Count" parameter extra. Is it possible that i can write one more api similar iike the smbus block write without count parameter. will that be proper method or smbus protocol does not support this?
2 Question.
I have opened the device succesfully.uisng the below syntax.
i2c_fd = open("dev/i2c-0", O_RDWR);
i want to read block of data.
ret = read(i2c_fd,buff,3); is this read starts from which address is this starts at default zero address?
suppose if i want to read a block of data from 2nd register onwards how to call this api synatax. I dont want to use the smbus block read api because it does not suits my requirement.
please let me know if my question is not clear. i will be glad to frame the question in a proper way.
Thankyou.
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2009-05-30 10:39:06 Re: bfin i2c twi block read and write query
Robin Getz (UNITED STATES)
Message: 74820
Sreedhar:
What I2C devices is it? normally the I2C device has a "register address" register - that you write to - and then read from the device to get the info from that register.
-Robin
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2009-05-31 04:36:41 Re: bfin i2c twi block read and write query
Sonic Zhang (CHINA)
Message: 74874
1. Don't use i2c smbus API. Use ioctl() I2C_RDWR API with multi messages in i2c_data structure instead. Please refer to the SVN trunk twi_test source for an example.
2. Use ioctl() to set the specific i2c address before read() or write().