| SMBus Protocol Summary |
| ====================== |
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| The following is a summary of the SMBus protocol. It applies to |
| all revisions of the protocol (1.0, 1.1, and 2.0). |
| Certain protocol features which are not supported by |
| this package are briefly described at the end of this document. |
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| Some adapters understand only the SMBus (System Management Bus) protocol, |
| which is a subset from the I2C protocol. Fortunately, many devices use |
| only the same subset, which makes it possible to put them on an SMBus. |
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| If you write a driver for some I2C device, please try to use the SMBus |
| commands if at all possible (if the device uses only that subset of the |
| I2C protocol). This makes it possible to use the device driver on both |
| SMBus adapters and I2C adapters (the SMBus command set is automatically |
| translated to I2C on I2C adapters, but plain I2C commands can not be |
| handled at all on most pure SMBus adapters). |
| |
| Below is a list of SMBus protocol operations, and the functions executing |
| them. Note that the names used in the SMBus protocol specifications usually |
| don't match these function names. For some of the operations which pass a |
| single data byte, the functions using SMBus protocol operation names execute |
| a different protocol operation entirely. |
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| Key to symbols |
| ============== |
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| S (1 bit) : Start bit |
| P (1 bit) : Stop bit |
| Rd/Wr (1 bit) : Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0. |
| A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit. |
| Addr (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to |
| get a 10 bit I2C address. |
| Comm (8 bits): Command byte, a data byte which often selects a register on |
| the device. |
| Data (8 bits): A plain data byte. Sometimes, I write DataLow, DataHigh |
| for 16 bit data. |
| Count (8 bits): A data byte containing the length of a block operation. |
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| [..]: Data sent by I2C device, as opposed to data sent by the host adapter. |
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| SMBus Quick Command |
| =================== |
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| This sends a single bit to the device, at the place of the Rd/Wr bit. |
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| A Addr Rd/Wr [A] P |
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| SMBus Receive Byte: i2c_smbus_read_byte() |
| ========================================== |
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| This reads a single byte from a device, without specifying a device |
| register. Some devices are so simple that this interface is enough; for |
| others, it is a shorthand if you want to read the same register as in |
| the previous SMBus command. |
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| S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P |
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| SMBus Send Byte: i2c_smbus_write_byte() |
| ======================================== |
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| This operation is the reverse of Receive Byte: it sends a single byte |
| to a device. See Receive Byte for more information. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P |
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| SMBus Read Byte: i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() |
| ============================================ |
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| This reads a single byte from a device, from a designated register. |
| The register is specified through the Comm byte. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P |
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| SMBus Read Word: i2c_smbus_read_word_data() |
| ============================================ |
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| This operation is very like Read Byte; again, data is read from a |
| device, from a designated register that is specified through the Comm |
| byte. But this time, the data is a complete word (16 bits). |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] S Addr Rd [A] [DataLow] A [DataHigh] NA P |
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| SMBus Write Byte: i2c_smbus_write_byte_data() |
| ============================================== |
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| This writes a single byte to a device, to a designated register. The |
| register is specified through the Comm byte. This is the opposite of |
| the Read Byte operation. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Data [A] P |
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| SMBus Write Word: i2c_smbus_write_word_data() |
| ============================================== |
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| This is the opposite of the Read Word operation. 16 bits |
| of data is written to a device, to the designated register that is |
| specified through the Comm byte. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] DataLow [A] DataHigh [A] P |
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| SMBus Process Call |
| ================== |
| |
| This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends |
| 16 bits of data to it, and reads 16 bits of data in return. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] DataLow [A] DataHigh [A] |
| S Addr Rd [A] [DataLow] A [DataHigh] NA P |
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| SMBus Block Read: i2c_smbus_read_block_data() |
| ============================================== |
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| This command reads a block of up to 32 bytes from a device, from a |
| designated register that is specified through the Comm byte. The amount |
| of data is specified by the device in the Count byte. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] |
| S Addr Rd [A] [Count] A [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P |
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| SMBus Block Write: i2c_smbus_write_block_data() |
| ================================================ |
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| The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes up to 32 bytes to |
| a device, to a designated register that is specified through the |
| Comm byte. The amount of data is specified in the Count byte. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P |
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| SMBus Block Write - Block Read Process Call |
| =========================================== |
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| SMBus Block Write - Block Read Process Call was introduced in |
| Revision 2.0 of the specification. |
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| This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends |
| 1 to 31 bytes of data to it, and reads 1 to 31 bytes of data in return. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] ... |
| S Addr Rd [A] [Count] A [Data] ... A P |
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| SMBus Host Notify |
| ================= |
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| This command is sent from a SMBus device acting as a master to the |
| SMBus host acting as a slave. |
| It is the same form as Write Word, with the command code replaced by the |
| alerting device's address. |
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| [S] [HostAddr] [Wr] A [DevAddr] A [DataLow] A [DataHigh] A [P] |
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| Packet Error Checking (PEC) |
| =========================== |
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| Packet Error Checking was introduced in Revision 1.1 of the specification. |
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| PEC adds a CRC-8 error-checking byte to transfers using it, immediately |
| before the terminating STOP. |
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| Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) |
| ================================= |
| |
| The Address Resolution Protocol was introduced in Revision 2.0 of |
| the specification. It is a higher-layer protocol which uses the |
| messages above. |
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| ARP adds device enumeration and dynamic address assignment to |
| the protocol. All ARP communications use slave address 0x61 and |
| require PEC checksums. |
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| I2C Block Transactions |
| ====================== |
| |
| The following I2C block transactions are supported by the |
| SMBus layer and are described here for completeness. |
| They are *NOT* defined by the SMBus specification. |
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| I2C block transactions do not limit the number of bytes transferred |
| but the SMBus layer places a limit of 32 bytes. |
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| I2C Block Read: i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() |
| ================================================ |
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| This command reads a block of bytes from a device, from a |
| designated register that is specified through the Comm byte. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] |
| S Addr Rd [A] [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P |
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| I2C Block Read (2 Comm bytes) |
| ============================= |
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| This command reads a block of bytes from a device, from a |
| designated register that is specified through the two Comm bytes. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm1 [A] Comm2 [A] |
| S Addr Rd [A] [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P |
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| I2C Block Write: i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data() |
| ================================================== |
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| The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes bytes to |
| a device, to a designated register that is specified through the |
| Comm byte. Note that command lengths of 0, 2, or more bytes are |
| supported as they are indistinguishable from data. |
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| S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P |