UM10204
Description
The I2C-bus is a de facto world standard that is now implemented in over 1000 different ICs manufactured by more than 50 companies. Additionally, the versatile I2C-bus is used in various control architectures such as System Management Bus (SMBus), Power Management Bus (PMBus), Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), Display Data Channel (DDC) and Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA).
Key Features
- Some intelligent control, usually a single-chip microcontroller
- General-purpose circuits like LCD and LED drivers, remote I/O ports, RAM, EEPROM, real-time clocks or A/D and D/A converters