The PMBus module has the following features:
- Compliance with the SMI Forum
PMBus Specification (Part I v1.0 and Part II v1.1)
- Supports voltage thresholds
compatible to:
- PMBus 1.2
and
below
- SMBus 2.0
and
below
- 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