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Re: [ts-7000] Re: I2C interface on TS-7500

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: I2C interface on TS-7500
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:24:09 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Jonatan Olofsson wrote:

> It seems very few people has ever used the I2C on the TS-7500, so the
> documentation is very sparse. I'm determined to write a better one to
> publish once I've successfully figured it out, but as of now, i would need a
> pointer or two.
> 
> What I'm trying to accomplish is reading data from a Wii controller to the
> TS. I know the controller works, but all I can seem to get out of it is a
> series of ones (0xFFFFFFFF), wherever i read from or write to. At first i
> thought the initialization was wrong, but after triple-checking everything,
> in that case it must be because i misunderstand the way it sends data.
> 
> From what I gather, the data in the TWI_WR_DAT register is sent LSB first.
> Thus, to send the sequence "start - 0xA6 - 0xFE - 0x05 - stop", I should
> write 0x53 to the slave address register (=0xA6 in transferred bytes), then
> 0x05FE to the write data register, and lastly enable the bit to start the
> transmission.

Can't help with the ts7500 and hardware i2c, sorry. But I did get i2c
running on a ts7260, using the linux 2.4 i2c infrastructure with 
a kernel bit banging module driving a couple of pins on the dio1 interface.

A snip from a previous post here I made...

 This kernel module works with the standard kernel i2c framework so
 supporting a standard interface to user programs.

 I used the stuff from this webpage...

  http://tisnix.dommel.be/ts-7260/

 I then wrote a program to use the kernel interface to the i2c device to
 get data.

 All this was done with the standard kernel Linux2.4.26-ts11 supplied by
 Technologics with the ts7260 board. I had to compile all the standard i2c
 modules as well as they are not supplied with the their kernel.

> So my first question is, am I getting these basic things right? It would be
> really nice to hear from someone who successfully implemented something more
> than that i2ctemp example, which really isn't very helpful..
> 
> Best regards and Happy Holidays!
> Jonatan Olofsson
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 21:13, jonatan_olofsson
> <>wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I'm still trying to figure out a few things about I2C communication.. Long
> > story short, i can't get it to work.
> >
> > First off, does anyone know what actually happens when data is read/sent
> > through the registers? What acks/nacks are sent?
> > From what i gathered from taking my TS-7500 to a logic analyzer today in
> > school, it sends start/stop conditions (and it appears to send data..)
> >
> > Part of why i'm asking is, when receiving or sending data, i read/write
> > from/to 32 byte registers. The device i need to interface sends data a 6
> > byte format, so i would need to be able to read that, and i'm not quite sure
> > what happens if the TS sends stop conditions after just four bytes..
> >
> > I really can't find any documentation on this.. I have the cavium datasheet
> > with some register addresses, but still this says nothing of what actually
> > happens on the bus, or how i can actually use the I2C interface..
> >
> > I would be tremendously grateful for hints on this, or documentation. Or
> > code, for that matter.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jonatan Olofsson
> >
> >
> > --- In  <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com>, "Kris"
> > <> wrote:
> > >
> > > The i2ctemp.c example on our FTP site (
> > ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7500-linux/samples/i2ctemp.c) will
> > not work on the TS-7500 as the temp sensor on the TS-752 is SPI. It is
> > however a generic example of using the I2C hardware in the Cavium CPU. We
> > attempted to use the Linux kernel interface to I2C however it will not even
> > communicate correctly with our I2C temp sensor.
> > >
> > > This sample code is going to be the most efficient way of interfacing
> > with I2C unless you want to bit-bang the data out of DIOs which will be much
> > slower since you have to go through the SBUS to access the DIO pins.
> > >
> > > -Kris Bahnsen
> > > Technologic Systems
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In  <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "jonatan_olofsson" <jonatan.olofsson@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > First of all, thanks for the interesting discussions going on on this
> > forum.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to get the I2C interface working on my TS-7500. There is a
> > simple example available on the TS ftp, which unfortunately seems a bit
> > (way) too simple. So my question is, is there anyone who has written code
> > for using the TWI interface, or do i have to write my own implementation?
> > > >
> > > > Anyone got I2C working already who can give any pointers or hints?
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Jonatan Olofsson
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 


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