PCA9544A
4-CHANNEL I2C AND SMBus MULTIPLEXER
WITH INTERRUPT LOGIC
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SCPS146A–OCTOBER 2005–REVISED OCTOBER 2005
FEATURES
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1-of-4 Bidirectional Translating Switches
I2C Bus and SMBus Compatible
Four Active-Low Interrupt Inputs
Active-Low Interrupt Output
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No Glitch on Power Up
Supports Hot Insertion
Low Standby Current
Operating Power-Supply Voltage Range of
2.3 V to 5.5 V
Three Address Pins, Allowing up to Eight
Devices on the I2C Bus
Channel Selection Via I2C Bus
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5.5-V Tolerant Inputs
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0 to 400-kHz Clock Frequency
Power Up With All Switch Channels
Deselected
Latch-Up Performance Exceeds 100 mA Per
JESD 78
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Low RON Switches
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ESD Protection Exceeds JESD 22
– 2000-V Human-Body Model (A114-A)
– 200-V Machine Model (A115-A)
Allows Voltage-Level Translation Between
1.8-V, 2.5-V, 3.3-V, and 5-V Buses
– 1000-V Charged-Device Model (C101)
DESCRIPTION/ORDERING INFORMATION
The PCA9544A is a quad bidirectional translating switch controlled via the I2C bus. The SCL/SDA upstream pair
fans out to four downstream pairs, or channels. One SCL/SDA pair can be selected at a time, and this is
determined by the contents of the programmable control register. Four interrupt inputs (INT3–INT0), one for each
of the downstream pairs, are provided. One interrupt output (INT) acts as an AND of the four interrupt inputs.
A power-on reset function puts the registers in their default state and initializes the I2C state machine, with no
channel selected.
The pass gates of the switches are constructed such that the VCC pin can be used to limit the maximum high
voltage, which will be passed by the PCA9544A. This allows the use of different bus voltages on each pair, so
that 1.8-V, 2.5-V, or 3.3-V parts can communicate with 5-V parts, without any additional protection. External
pullup resistors pull the bus up to the desired voltage level for each channel. All I/O pins are 5-V tolerant.
ORDERING INFORMATION
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PACKAGE(1)
ORDERABLE PART NUMBER
PCA9544ARGWR
PCA9544ARGYR
PCA9544ADW
TOP-SIDE MARKING
PREVIEW
QFN – RGW
QFN – RGY
Reel of 3000
Reel of 1000
Tube of 25
PD544A
PCA9544A
PREVIEW
SOIC – DW
Reel of 2000
Reel of 250
Tube of 70
PCA9544ADWR
PCA9544ADWT
PCA9544APW
–40°C to 85°C
TSSOP – PW
TVSOP – DGV
Reel of 2000
Reel of 250
Reel of 2000
Reel of 250
Reel of 1000
Reel of 1000
PCA9544APWR
PCA9544APWT
PD544A
PCA9544ADGVR
PCA9544ADGVT
PCA9544AGQNR
PCA9544AZQNR
PD544A
PREVIEW
PD544A
PD544A
VFBGA – GQN
VFBGA – ZQN (Pb-free)
(1) Package drawings, standard packing quantities, thermal data, symbolization, and PCB design guidelines are available at
www.ti.com/sc/package.
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PRODUCTION DATA information is current as of publication date.
Copyright © 2005, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Products conform to specifications per the terms of the Texas
Instruments standard warranty. Production processing does not
necessarily include testing of all parameters.