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When a node on the I2C network receives a byte (address or data), it sends an acknowledgment that the address is acknowledged or the data byte is received successfully. When a transmitted message is not acknowledged by the recipient I2C, the transmitting I2C will flag NACK. Necessary software requirements are defined by the system integrator. For example a function which needs to transfer 4 bytes of data and can sent CRC as 5th byte. The device software can be designed such that the acknowledge is not provided if the data and CRC doesn’t match.
PMBus supports detection of errors using acknowledgment handshake, which can be configured to work in either automatic or manual mode(PMBSC.MAN_SLAVE_ACK bit). This acknowledgment handshake can be effectively implemented by firmware to detect communication faults such as masquerading faults by asserting NACK if the received address does not equal the slave address or acknowledging every byte received by PMBus slave receive byte acknowledge, or acknowledging received command byte, and so forth. For more details, see the UCD3138 Monitoring and Communications Programmer’s Manual.