Total Phase TP240310 I2C / SPI Activity Board

The Total Phase I2C/SPI Activity Board is a perfect tool for both the expert and novice embedded systems developer.

This board is a great sanity check for the expert developer. Debugging a system against working slave devices can help differentiate between hardware and software bugs. The activity board is also useful to establish a baseline for software usage.

The target devices on the activity board are also a great way for the novice developer to learn the mechanics of the I2C and SPI bus protocols.

Targets

• I2C Port Expander
  PCA9554AD 8-bit I2C and SMBus I/O port with interrupt (NXP Semiconductors)
• I2C EEPROM
  AT24C02 256 Bytes / 2 Kilobit (8 byte pages) 2-Wire Bus Serial EEPROM (Atmel)
• SPI EEPROM
  AT25080A 1 Kilobyte / 8 Kilobit (32 byte pages) SPI Bus Serial EEPROM, High Speed, supports SPI Mode 0 and 3 (Atmel)

Example Code

Example code for the I2C/SPI Activity Board is available in the Aardvark™ Software API and Shared Library package in the Downloads section of this website.

Examples are available in C, Visual Basic, Python, and Aardvark™ XML batch script code. README.txt files are included in the package to explain each of the examples.

You can also view samples in the I2C/SPI Activity Board online User Manual.