JAJSI81B April 2014 – November 2019 TCA9546A
PRODUCTION DATA.
The A0, A1, and A2 pins are hardware selectable to control the slave address of the TCA9546A. These pins may be tied directly to GND or VCC in the application.
If multiple slave channels will be activated simultaneously in the application, then the total IOL from SCL/SDA to GND on the master side will be the sum of the currents through all pull-up resistors, Rp.
The pass-gate transistors of the TCA9546A are constructed such that the VCC voltage can be used to limit the maximum voltage that is passed from one I2C bus to another.
Figure 16 shows the voltage characteristics of the pass-gate transistors (note that the graph was generated using data specified in the Electrical Characteristics section of this data sheet). In order for the TCA9546A to act as a voltage translator, the Vpass voltage must be equal to or lower than the lowest bus voltage. For example, if the main bus is running at 5 V and the downstream buses are 3.3 V and 2.7 V, Vpass must be equal to or below 2.7 V to effectively clamp the downstream bus voltages. As shown in Figure 16, Vpass(max) is 2.7 V when the TCA9546A supply voltage is 4 V or lower, so the TCA9546A supply voltage could be set to 3.3 V. Pull-up resistors then can be used to bring the bus voltages to their appropriate levels (see Figure 15).