Intel® Pentium® Silver and Intel® Celeron® Processors

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2

ID Date Version Classification
633935 12/27/2022 Public
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DSP

Intel® LPSS Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) Controllers

The PCH implements six I2C controllers for six independent I2C interfaces, I2C0-I2C5. Each interface is a two-wire serial interface consisting of a serial data line (SDA) and a serial clock (SCL).

I2C4 and I2C5 only implement the I2C host controllers and do not incorporate a DMA controller. Therefore, I2C4 and I2C5 are restricted to operate in PIO mode only.

The I2C interfaces support the following features:

  • Speed: standard mode (up to 100 Kb/s), fast mode (up to 400 Kb/s), fast mode plus (up to 1 MB/s) and High speed mode (up to 3.2 Mb/s).
  • 1.8 V or 3.3 V support (depending on the voltage supplied to the I2C signal group)
  • Master I2C operation only
  • 7-bit or 10-bit addressing
  • 7-bit or 10-bit combined format transfers
  • Bulk transmit mode
  • Ignoring CBUS addresses (an older ancestor of I2C used to share the I2C bus)
  • Interrupt or polled-mode operation
  • Bit and byte waiting at all bus speed
  • Component parameters for configurable software driver support
  • Programmable SDA hold time (tHD; DAT)
  • DMA support with 64-byte DMA FIFO per channel (up to 32-byte burst)
  • 64-byte Tx FIFO and 64-byte Rx FIFO
  • SW controlled serial data line (SDA) and serial clock (SCL)

Notes:
  1. The controllers must only be programmed to operate in master mode only. I2C slave mode is not supported.
  2. I2C multi masters is not supported.
  3. Simultaneous configuration of Fast Mode and Fast Mode Plus/High speed mode is not supported.
  4. I2C General Call is not supported.

Acronyms

Acronyms

Description

I2C

Inter-Integrated Circuit

PIO

Programmed Input/Output

SCL

Serial Clock Line

SDA

Serial Data Line

References

Specification

Location

The I2C Bus Specification, Version 5

www.nxp.com/documents/user_​manual/UM10204.pdf