The PMBus module has the following features:
- Compliance with the SMI Forum PMBus Specification (Part I v1.0 and Part II v1.1)
- Support for master and slave modes
- Support for I2C mode
- Support for two speeds:
- Standard Mode: Up to 100 kHz
- Fast Mode: 400 kHz
- Packet error checking
- CONTROL and ALERT signals
- Clock high and low time-outs
- Four-byte transmit and receive buffers
- One maskable interrupt, which can be generated by several conditions:
- Receive data ready
- Transmit buffer empty
- Slave address received
- End of message
- ALERT input asserted
- Clock low time-out
- Clock high time-out
- Bus free
Figure 6-63 shows the PMBus block diagram.