SLUSCC7C July 2016 – June 2018 TPS546C23
PRODUCTION DATA.
Timing and electrical characteristics of the PMBus interface specification can be found in the PMB Power Management Protocol Specification, Part 1, revision 1.3 available at http://pmbus.org. The devices support both the 100-kHz and 400-kHz bus timing requirements. The devices do not stretch pulses when communicating with the master device.
Communication over the PMBus interface can support the Packet Error Checking (PEC) scheme if desired. If the master supplies clock (CLK pin) pulses for the PEC byte, PEC is used. If the CLK pulses are not present before a STOP, the PEC is not used.
The devices support a subset of the commands in the PMBus 1.3 Power Management Protocol Specification. See Supported PMBus Commands for more information
The devices also support the SMBALERT response protocol. The SMBALERT response protocol is a mechanism by which a slave device (such as the devices ) can alert the bus master that it is available for communication. The master processes this event and simultaneously accesses all slaves on the bus (that support the protocol) through the alert response address (ARA). Only the slave that caused the alert acknowledges this request. The host performs a modified receive byte operation to ascertain the slave address. At this point, the master can use the PMBus status commands to query the slave that caused the alert. By default these devices implement the auto alert response, a manufacturer specific improvement to the SMBALERT response protocol, intended to mitigate the issue of bus hogging. For more information, see the Auto ARA Response section. For more information on the SMBus alert response protocol, refer to the System Management Bus (SMBus) specification.
The devices contain nonvolatile memory that stores configuration settings and scale factors. However, the device does not save the settings programmed into this nonvolatile memory. The STORE_DEFAULT_ALL (11h) or STORE_USER_ALL (11h) command must be used to commit the current settings to nonvolatile memory as device defaults. The settings that are capable of being stored in nonvolatile memory are noted in the detailed command descriptions.