PCA9510A
Hot swappable I2C-bus and SMBus bus buffer
Rev. 01 — 8 September 2005
Product data sheet
1. General description
The PCA9510A is a hot swappable I2C-bus and SMBus buffer that allows I/O card
insertion into a live backplane without corrupting the data and clock buses. Control
circuitry prevents the backplane from being connected to the card until a stop command or
bus idle occurs on the backplane without bus contention on the card. When the
connection is made, the PCA9510A provides bidirectional buffering, keeping the
backplane and card capacitances isolated.
The PCA9510A has no rise time accelerator circuitry to prevent interference when there
are multiple devices in the same system. The PCA9510A incorporates a digital ENABLE
input pin, which enables the device when asserted HIGH and forces the device into a Low
current mode when asserted LOW, and an open-drain READY output pin, which indicates
that the backplane and card sides are connected together (HIGH) or not (LOW).
During insertion, the PCA9510A SDAIN and SCLIN pins (inputs only) are precharged to
1 V to minimize the current required to charge the parasitic capacitance of the chip.
Remark: The dynamic offset design of the PCA9510A/11A/12A/13A/14A I/O drivers allow
them to be connected to another PCA9510A/11A/12A/13A/14A device in series or in
parallel and to the A side of the PCA9517. The PCA9510A/11A/12A/13A/14A cannot
connect to the static offset I/Os used on the PCA9515/15A/16/16A/18 or PCA9517 B side
or P82B96 Sx/y side.
2. Features
■ Bidirectional buffer for SDA and SCL lines increases fanout and prevents SDA and
SCL corruption during live board insertion and removal from multi-point backplane
systems
■ Compatible with I2C-bus Standard mode, I2C-bus Fast mode, and SMBus standards
■ Active HIGH ENABLE input
■ Active HIGH READY open-drain output
■ High-impedance SDAn and SCLn pins for VCC = 0 V
■ 1 V precharge on SDAIN and SCLIN inputs
■ Supports clock stretching and multiple master arbitration and synchronization
■ Operating power supply voltage range: 2.7 V to 5.5 V
■ I/Os are not 5.5 V tolerant
■ 0 Hz to 400 kHz clock frequency
■ ESD protection exceeds 2000 V HBM per JESD22-A114, 200 V MM per
JESD22-A115, and 1000 V CDM per JESD22-C101
■ Latch-up testing is done to JEDEC Standard JESD78 which exceeds 100 mA
■ Packages offered: SO8, TSSOP8 (MSOP8)