AD5305/AD5315/AD5325
SERIAL INTERFACE
The AD5305/AD5315/AD5325 are controlled via an I2C
compatible serial bus. The DACs are connected to this bus as
slave devices (that is, no clock is generated by the AD5305/
AD5315/AD5325 DACs). This interface is SMBus compatible
at VDD < 3.6 V.
The AD5305/AD5315/AD5325 have a 7-bit slave address. The
6 MSB are 000110 and the LSB is determined by the state of the
A0 pin. The facility to make hardwired changes to A0 allows the
user to use up to two of these devices on one bus. The 2-wire
serial bus protocol operates as follows:
1. The master initiates data transfer by establishing a start
condition, which is when a high-to-low transition on the
SDA line occurs while SCL is high. The following byte is
the address byte, which consists of the 7-bit slave address
followed by an R/W bit (this bit determines whether data is
read from or written to the slave device).
The slave whose address corresponds to the transmitted
address responds by pulling SDA low during the ninth
clock pulse (this is termed the acknowledge bit). At this
stage, all other devices on the bus remain idle while the
selected device waits for data to be written to or read from
its shift register.
2. Data is transmitted over the serial bus in sequences of nine
clock pulses (eight data bits followed by an acknowledge
bit). The transitions on the SDA line must occur during the
low period of SCL and remain stable during the high
period of SCL.
3. When all data bits have been read or written, a stop
condition is established. In write mode, the master pulls
the SDA line high during the 10th clock pulse to establish a
stop condition. In read mode, the master issues a No
Acknowledge for the ninth clock pulse (that is, the SDA
line remains high). The master then brings the SDA line
low before the 10th clock pulse and then high during the
10th clock pulse to establish a stop condition.
READ/WRITE SEQUENCE
In the case of the AD5305/AD5315/AD5325, all write access
sequences and most read sequences begin with the device
address (with R/W = 0) followed by the pointer byte. This
pointer byte specifies the data format and determines which
DAC is being accessed in the subsequent read/write operation
(see Figure 31). In a write operation, the data follows
immediately. In a read operation, the address is resent with
R/W = 1 and then the data is read back. However, it is also
possible to perform a read operation by sending only the
address with R/W = 1. The previously loaded pointer settings
are then used for the readback operation. See Figure 32 for a
graphical explanation of the interface.
MSB
LSB
X
X
0
0 DACD DACC DACB DACA
Figure 31. Pointer Byte
POINTER BYTE BITS
Table 6 explains the individual bits that make up the pointer byte.
Table 6. Individual Bits of the Pointer Byte
Bit
Description
X
Don’t care bits.
0
Reserved bits. Must be set to 0.
DACD [1] The following data bytes are for DAC D.
DACC [1] The following data bytes are for DAC C.
DACB [1] The following data bytes are for DAC B.
DACA [1] The following data bytes are for DAC A.
INPUT SHIFT REGISTER
The input shift register is 16 bits wide. Data is loaded into the
device as two data bytes on the serial data line, SDA, under the
control of the serial clock input, SCL. The timing diagram for
this operation is shown in Figure 2. The two data bytes consist
of four control bits followed by 8, 10, or 12 bits of DAC data,
depending on the device type. The first two bits loaded are the
PD1 and PD0 bits that control the mode of operation of the device.
See the Power-Down Modes section for a complete description.
Bit 13 is CLR, Bit 12 is LDAC, and the remaining bits are left
justified DAC data bits, starting with the MSB. See Figure 32.
MSB
DATA BYTES (WRITE AND READBACK)
MOST SIGNIFICANT DATA BYTE
8-BIT AD5305
LSB
MSB
LEAST SIGNIFICANT DATA BYTE
8-BIT AD5305
PD1 PD0 CLR LDAC D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
0
0
0
LSB
0
MSB
10-BIT AD5315
LSB
PD1 PD0 CLR LDAC D9
D8
D7
D6
MSB
D5
D4
10-BIT AD5315
D3
D2
D1
D0
LSB
0
0
MSB
12-BIT AD5325
PD1 PD0 CLR LDAC D11 D10
LSB
D9
D8
MSB
D7
D6
12-BIT AD5325
D5
D4
D3
D2
Figure 32. Data Formats for Write and Readback
LSB
D1
D0
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