The multi-master Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)
interfaces support the following main features:
- Compliancy to the Philips
I2C-bus specification version 2.1
- Support of standard mode (up
to 100 Kbps) and fast mode (up to 400 Kbps)
- Support of 7-bit and 10-bit
device addressing modes
- Support of multi-master
transmitter/slave receiver and receiver/slave transmitter modes
- Built-in FIFOs with
programmable size of 8 to 64 bytes for buffered read or write
- 8-bit-wide data access
- Support of Auto Idle, Idle
Request/Idle Acknowledge handshake, and Asynchronous Wakeup mechanisms
- Low power consumption