Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors) | Subject: PCA953x GPIO chips
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 December 2004
General-purpose I/O devices
are frugal with power
Continuing its innovation in I2C solutions, Philips has a new series of I2C-bus controlled push-pull general-purpose input/outputs (GPIOs)
The new devices offer reduced power consumption to extend the battery life of mobile devices. As an industry first, the new GPIOs feature both an interrupt output and reset input. This enables the I2C-bus to be quickly reset, which is especially important for high-reliability applications such as servers where a hang up of the I2C-bus could cause failure of the system.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 December 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In applications such as mobile phones and PDAs, there is often a need for a greater number of GPIOs than that already integrated into the processor.
Removing the internal pull-up resistor in existing Philips' GPIOs allows designers to add additional GPIOs into battery powered systems while minimising the current consumption, thus sustaining battery life.
Additionally, some of these new devices have both an interrupt output pin and hardware reset input pin.
This provides server manufacturers such as IBM with an easy solution to recover the I2C-bus without the need to cycle power, enabling positive control of the bus and negating the need to restart the server when errors occur.
The external reset pin offers the software programmers an easy way to simplify the programming sequence by simply resetting all registers.
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'Philips' new PCA9538/9539 I/O expanders integrate push pull outputs, interrupt and hardware reset - all the functions we need for reliable server operation - into a single package', said Bob Christopher, Senior Engineer, Advanced Server Technology Development, IBM Corp.
'This enables us to reduce real estate and lower our component count'.
'The parts maintain a software interface consistent with that of PCA9554/9555 so that, aside from an address change, existing code need not change'.
'With this new family of low power I2C GPIOs, Philips is expanding its innovative I2C solution offerings to system manufacturers, enabling unprecedented design flexibility in bit width and feature set', said Pierre-Yves Lesaicherre, General Manager, Interface Products business line at Philips Semiconductors.
'As a result, the new devices are ideal not only for server applications but a broad range of portable applications such as mobile phones and PDAs where power consumption and battery life are key concerns'.
The new 4, 8 and 16bit devices have similar footprints to Philips' existing widely used I2C GPIOs, enabling easy migration for applications where totem pole outputs are required but without internal pull up resistors.
The PCA9534 and PCA9535, both with interrupt outputs, are designed for mobile applications where low power consumption is required.
The PCA9536 is an inexpensive 4bit GPIO, the only new device that includes internal pull up resistors, in a very small 8-pin package.
The PCA9537, PCA9538 and PCA9539 are 4, 8 and 16bit GPIOs, respectively, and feature both an interrupt output and reset input.
Products in the PCA953x GPIO family are offered in SO, TSSOP and HVQFN packages.
The 8bit PCA9534 and PCA9538 are available in 16-pin SO, TSSOP and HVQFN.
The 16bit PCA9535 and PCA9539 are available in 24-pin SO, TSSOP and HVQFN in quantities of 10,000.
The 4bit PCA9536 and PCA9537 are available in 8- and 10-pin 3 x 3mm TSSOP (MSOP), respectively, in quantities of 10,000.
All devices are available in volume except the PCA9536 and PCA9537, which are currently sampling and will be available in volume by the end of 2004.
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