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Raspberry Pi Essentials

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784396398
Pages 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Jack Creasey Jack Creasey
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi 2. Configuring the Raspberry Pi Desktop and Software 3. Raspberry Pi and Cameras 4. Raspberry Pi Audio Input and Output 5. Port Input and Output on the Raspberry Pi 6. Driving I2C Peripherals on the Raspberry Pi 7. Going Mobile with Raspberry Pi 8. Creating a Raspberry Pi Line-following Robot Index

Getting started with I2C


The specifications for both I2C and SMBus are quite complex. For more in-depth documentation on the differences between I2C and SMBus, refer to the following resources:

  • http://smbus.org/specs/index.html

  • http://www.nxp.com/documents/user_manual/UM10204.pdf

The I2C bus is a shared-media multi-drop architecture with only two lines: (1) serial data (SDA) and (2) serial clock (SCL)—not including the ground. The bus is in a quiescent state when no transactions are being sent or received and both the SDA and SCL lines are pulled high by resistors to 3.3V in the Pi (or 5V in other implementations). The master and slave devices only ever pull the data line low, which is described as a wired OR connection. The following diagram shows the general I2C architecture and its location on the Pi I/O connector. Pins 3 and 5 can also be used as GPIO ports but not while you have I2C enabled, so you lose two GPIO ports.

At the protocol level, I2C is similar in concept to the RS232 serial...

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