Device::FTDI::I2C - use an FDTI chip to talk the I²C protocol
Device::FTDI::I2C
This subclass of Device::FTDI::MPSSE provides helpers around the basic MPSSE to fully implement the I²C protocol.
$i2c = Device::FTDI::I2C->new( %args )
In addition to the arguments taken by "new" in Device::FTDI::MPSSE, this constructor also accepts:
Sets the initial value of the bit clock rate; as per "set_clock_rate".
Any of the following methods documented with a trailing ->get call return Future instances.
->get
$i2c->set_clock_rate( $rate )->get
Sets the clock rate for data transfers, in units of bits per second.
$i2c->set_check_mode( $mode )
Sets the amount of ACK checking that the module will perform. Must be one of of the following exported constants:
CHECK_NONE, CHECK_AT_END, CHECK_AFTER_ADDR, CHECK_EACH_BYTE
This controls how eagerly the module will check for incoming ACK conditions from the addressed I²C device. The more often the module checks, the better it can detect error conditions from devices, but the more USB transfers it requires and so the entire operation will take longer.
ACK
In CHECK_EACH_BYTE mode, the module will wait to receive an ACK condition after every single byte of transfer. This mode is the most technically-correct in terms of aborting the transfer as soon as the required ACK is not received, but consumes an entire USB transfer roundtrip for every byte transferred, and is therefore the slowest.
CHECK_EACH_BYTE
In CHECK_AFTER_ADDR mode, just the addressing command is sent and then the first ACK or NACK bit is read in. At this point the module takes the decision to abort (on NACK) or continue (on ACK). If it continues, it will send or receive all the subsequent bytes of data in one go.
CHECK_AFTER_ADDR
NACK
In CHECK_AT_END mode, the entire I²C transaction is sent to the FDTI device, which will collect all the incoming ACK or NACK bits and any incoming data. Once the entire transaction has taken place, the module will check that all the required ACKs were received. This mode is the fastest and involves the fewest USB operations.
CHECK_AT_END
In CHECK_NONE mode, the module will not check any of the ACK conditions. The entire write (or write-then-read) transaction will be sent in a single USB transfer, and the bytes received will be returned to the caller.
CHECK_NONE
Because it offers a useful hybrid between speed efficiency and technical correctness, CHECK_AFTER_ADDR is the default mode.
$i2c->write( $addr, $data_out )->get
Performs an I²C write operation to the chip at the given (7-bit) address value.
The device sends a start condition, then a command to address the chip for writing, followed by the bytes given in the data, and finally a stop condition.
$data_in = $i2c->read( $addr, $len_in )->get
Performs an I²C read operation to the chip at the given (7-bit) address value.
The device sends a start condition, then a command to address the chip for reading. It then attempts to read up to the given number of bytes of input from the chip, sending an ACK condition to all but the final byte, to which it sends NACK, then finally a stop condition.
$data_in = $i2c->write_then_read( $addr, $data_out, $len_in )->get
Performs an I²C write operation followed by a read operation within the same transaction to the chip at the given (7-bit) address value. This is roughly equivalent to performing separate calls to "write" and "read" except that the two will be combined into a single I²C transaction using a repeated start condition.
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
To install Device::FTDI, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Device::FTDI
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Device::FTDI
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.