BoardBringUp-i2c

Presentation

• Embedded Linux Conference Europe - Board Bringup: You, Me and I2c slides and video available from Free Electronics
• Automotive Linux Summit - Board Bringup: You, Me and I2c slides

Reference Material

• Wikipedia entry for "Asynchronous Communication"
• Wikipedia entry for "I2C"
• I2C Primer from i2c-bus.org
• EE-Times I2C Introduction
• Principles of Modern Instrumentation - by Frank Spitzer and Barry Howarth.
• Wikipedia Entry for "EDID"

Components

• PCF8575 I2C GPIO Expander Break-Out-Board from Sparkfun.com
• PCA9306 I2C Level Shifter Break-Out-Board from Sparkfun.com
• AT24C02B 256 Byte I2C EEPROM
• TCA6408 I2C GPIO Expander from Texas Instruments
• 0.1" 4-wire Cable from Sparkfun.com
• INA219 I2C Current Monitor from Texas Instruments
• Bus Pirate -- Affordable tool which can talk I2C (via USB) controlled from a serial terminal
• Small BreadBoard from Sparkfun.com
• 1" Square Prototype PCB from Sparkfun.com
• Low Current LED from Sparkfun.com
• Large PushButton from Sparkfun.com

Resources

• Open Bench Logic Sniffer
• Sigrok Open-Source signal analysis software suite
• Linux I2C Tools Suite
• Linux Kernel Core I2C Drivers
• Linux Kernel I2C GPIO Expander Driver for PCF857x Series

• NEW - Resource page for low cost open tools such oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
• NEW - Low Cost Oscilloscope from Sparkfun.com $99USD