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Reply With QuoteCrapola.... I knew there was some funky business with the via's implimentation of the I2C.
Good luck in finding what you need Rando
Can anyone tell me if there is a true I2C host adapter on board the M10k and, more importantly, point me to some reference information and/or code that describes it?
As part of Seth's AM/FM RDS radio project, I've been working on the basic I2C interface driver. Some of you are aware, we were planning to hook the boards up to the M10k I2C header for development/testing, before we waste any time developing a USB to I2C bridge.
Based on my weekend of research, the only public control interface for the M10K I2C port implements the SMBus protocols only. Basically all the code or discussion threads I've found point back to the Linux i2c-viapro.c driver. That driver and the underlying control interface is essentially a clone of the Intel PIIX4 SMBus. I have a port of the Linux driver in Windows running in user space. It communicates with the underlying hardware through the Numega portio.sys sample driver from the MS DDK. This code works fine and correctly issues SMBus commands on the bus without any problems.
SMBus is unfortunately only a subset of the full I2C bus. While it's possible to implement SMBus on top of the general I2C interface, the reverse is not possible. In the case of our tuner and signal processor ICs, the commands required cannot be contructed from the SMBus protocol primitives. We need native I2C (Start, Stop, Ack, Nack, Set/Clear Data, Set/Clear Clock), or at least something lower level than what SMBus offers.
Crapola.... I knew there was some funky business with the via's implimentation of the I2C.
Good luck in finding what you need Rando
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Well don't lose sleep over it or anything dude.
We can always bitbang over the parallel port for initial testing. It doesn't look impossible to implement though performance will surely suck -- not that performance will be an issue in this case. The I/O interface sits idle except when you issue a command to change something. Even then, it's only a handful of bytes.
http://www.devasys.com/usbi2cio.htm
You can pick one of these up to test with.
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Or rs232 to i2c
http://www.emicros.com/i2c232.htm
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My next generation Front End is right on schedule.
It will be done sometime in the next generation.
I'm a lesbian too.
I am for hire!
That looks nice, kinda pricey though!Originally Posted by frodobaggins
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I'm not suggesting things for production, just so he can have something
to test his chips out with.
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OK, maybe I wasn't clear in the original post. I'm not looking for an alternate interface -- I'm aware that there are many options. The question is the M10K. Does it or doesn't it support native I2C over its (supposed) I2C header?
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