ꢁT75C
C
SMBALERT
1.
is pulled low.
SMBus ALERT
2. Master initiates a read operation and sends the SMBus alert
response address (ARA = 0001 100). This reserved
SMBus/I2C address must not be used as a specific device
address.
The OS/ALERT pin can behave as a SMBus alert pin when the
SMBus alert function is enabled by setting Bit D7 in the
configuration register. The interrupt mode must also be selected
(Bit D1 in the configuration register). The OS/ALERT pin is an
open-drain output and requires a pull-up to VDD. Several
SMBus alert outputs can be wire-AND’ed together, so that the
common line goes low if one or more of the SMBus alert
outputs goes low. The polarity of the OS/ALERT pin must be set
for active low for a number of outputs to be wire-AND’ed
together.
3. The device whose SMBus alert output is low responds to the
SMBus alert response address and the master reads its device
address. As the device address is seven bits long, the ADT75’s
LSB is free to be used as an indicator as to which temperature
limit was eꢀceeded. The LSB is high if the temperature is
greater than or equal to TOS, and the LSB is low if the
temperature is less than THYST. The address of the device is now
known and it can be interrogated in the usual way.
SMBALERT
The OS/ALERT output can operate as a
Slave devices on the SMBus normally cannot signal to the
SMBALERT
SMBALERT
allows them to do so.
the SMBus general call address.
function.
4. If more than one devices’ SMBus alert output is low, the
one with the lowest device address has priority, which is in
accordance with normal SMBus specifications.
master that they want to talk, but the
function
is used in conjunction with
Once the ADT75 has responded to the SMBus alert response
One or more SMBus alert outputs can be connected to a
SMBALERT
address, it resets its SMBus alert output. If the
line
SMBALERT
common
SMBALERT
line connected to the master. When the
remains low, the master sends the ARA again. It continues to do
line is pulled low by one of the devices, the
SMBALERT
this until all devices whose
responded.
outputs were low have
following procedure occurs as shown in Figure 20.
MASTER
RECEIVES
SMBALERT
MASTER
ACK
MASTER
NACK
DEVICE ACK
MASTER
RECEIVES
SMBALERT
ALERT RESPONSE
NO
START
RD ACK DEVICE ADDRESS
STOP
ACK
ADDRESS
ALERT RESPONSE
DEVICE
ADDRESS
NO
ACK
START
RD ACK
ACK
PEC
STOP
ADDRESS
MASTER SENDS
ARA AND READ
COMMAND
DEVICE SENDS
ITS ADDRESS
MASTER SENDS
ARA AND READ
COMMAND
DEVICE SENDS DEVICE SENDS
ITS ADDRESS ITS PEC DATA
SMBALERT
Figure 20. ADT75 Responds to
ARA
SMBALERT
Figure 21. ADT75 Responds to
ARA
with Packet Error Checking (PEC)
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