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| This document describes the i2c protocol. Or will, when it is finished :-)
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| 
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| Key to symbols
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| ==============
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| 
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| S     (1 bit) : Start bit
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| P     (1 bit) : Stop bit
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| Rd/Wr (1 bit) : Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0.
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| A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit. 
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| Addr  (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to 
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|                 get a 10 bit I2C address.
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| Comm  (8 bits): Command byte, a data byte which often selects a register on
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|                 the device.
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| Data  (8 bits): A plain data byte. Sometimes, I write DataLow, DataHigh
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|                 for 16 bit data.
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| Count (8 bits): A data byte containing the length of a block operation.
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| 
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| [..]: Data sent by I2C device, as opposed to data sent by the host adapter.
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| 
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| 
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| Simple send transaction
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| ======================
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| 
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| This corresponds to i2c_master_send.
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| 
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|   S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
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| 
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| 
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| Simple receive transaction
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| ===========================
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| 
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| This corresponds to i2c_master_recv
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| 
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|   S Addr Rd [A] [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P
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| 
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| 
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| Combined transactions
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| ====================
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| 
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| This corresponds to i2c_transfer
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| 
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| They are just like the above transactions, but instead of a stop bit P
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| a start bit S is sent and the transaction continues. An example of
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| a byte read, followed by a byte write:
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| 
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|   S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P
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| 
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| 
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| Modified transactions
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| =====================
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| 
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| We have found some I2C devices that needs the following modifications:
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| 
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|   Flag I2C_M_NOSTART: 
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|     In a combined transaction, no 'S Addr Wr/Rd [A]' is generated at some
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|     point. For example, setting I2C_M_NOSTART on the second partial message
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|     generates something like:
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|       S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA Data [A] P
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|     If you set the I2C_M_NOSTART variable for the first partial message,
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|     we do not generate Addr, but we do generate the startbit S. This will
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|     probably confuse all other clients on your bus, so don't try this.
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| 
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|   Flags I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR
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|     This toggles the Rd/Wr flag. That is, if you want to do a write, but
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|     need to emit an Rd instead of a Wr, or vice versa, you set this
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|     flag. For example:
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|       S Addr Rd [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
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| 
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|   Flags I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK
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|     Normally message is interrupted immediately if there is [NA] from the
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|     client. Setting this flag treats any [NA] as<61>[A], and all of
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|     message is sent.
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|     These messages may still fail to SCL lo->hi timeout.
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| 
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|   Flags I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK
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|     In a read message, master A/NA bit is skipped.
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