SLVUAW9C September 2016 – February 2020 UCD90320
This command is added in PMBUS specification 1.2 and is described in section 15.38. It is used to block a status bit(s) from causing the SMBALERT# signal to be asserted. Refer to PMBUS specification document for format details. This command has to be used together with status command codes in order to write or read the mask of a specific status bit. The status command codes that can be used with this command include:
Another status command code, MFR_STATUS, also needs to work with the SMBALERT_MASK command. However, SMBALERT_MASK can only write/read one byte mask at a time. Since MFR_STATUS contains 40 bits, it is split into 5 sub-commands to work with the SMBALERT_MASK command: