The Inter IC (I2C) bus was developed by Philips Semiconductor in the early 1980s to simplify electronic products by reducing the number of parallel data lines. Version 1.0 of the I2C-Bus specification ...

Bidirectional buses (e.g., I 2 C, SMBus, and LIN) have become ubiquitous in today’s electronics due in part to their simplicity. Using only two wires – data and clock – multiple devices can ...

The PCA9306 is a dual bidirectional I²C-bus and SMBus voltage-level translator with an enable (EN) input, and is operational from 1.0 V to 3.6 V (Vref(1)) and 1.8 V to 5.5 V (Vbias(ref)(2)). The ...

Processors continue to get faster and faster, but the frontside bus (FSB) remains one of the biggest bottlenecks on system performance. Most major manufacturers, including Intel, Motorola and AMD, are ...