The latest issue (August '98) of the UK magazine 'Electronics and
Beyond' from parts distributor Maplin, has an article on driving
serial EEPROMS (page 62) that covers the I2C protocol pretty well. It
specifically talks about who ACK's and when.
CIAO - Martin.
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Subject: Re: I2C master to slave byte xfer, which one ack's?
Author: pic microcontroller discussion list <spam_OUTPICLISTTakeThisOuT
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Date: 5/16/98 7:55 PM
At 08:21 AM 15/05/98 -0700, you wrote:
{Quote hidden}>Got a question concerning I2C data transfer from a master
>to a slave I2C part.
>
>If I need to send 4 consecutive bytes to a slave, which chip does the
>acknowledgement between each byte sent? Do I allow for an ack after
>the last byte before sending a STOP command?
>
>In my setup, there is only 1 master and 1 slave. I do not need
>to read any data bytes from the slave.
>
>Thanks.
>Dave
>
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Try to check Vincents Himpes FAQ page which may be downloaded
from FTP//fpt.uni.paderborn.de/elrad/020/
best regards,
Hans
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