ATMEGA8A-AUR Atmel, ATMEGA8A-AUR Datasheet - Page 189

• Manufacturer Part Number: ATMEGA8A-AUR
• Description: MCU AVR 8KB FLASH 16MHZ 32TQFP
• Manufacturer: Atmel
• Series: AVR® ATmegar

Specifications of ATMEGA8A-AUR

• Core Processor: AVR
• Core Size: 8-Bit
• Speed: 16MHz
• Connectivity: I²C, SPI, UART/USART
• Peripherals: Brown-out Detect/Reset, POR, PWM, WDT
• Number Of I /o: 23
• Program Memory Size: 8KB (4K x 16)
• Program Memory Type: FLASH
• Eeprom Size: 512 x 8
• Ram Size: 1K x 8
• Voltage - Supply (vcc/vdd): 2.7 V ~ 5.5 V
• Data Converters: A/D 8x10b
• Oscillator Type: Internal
• Operating Temperature: -40°C ~ 85°C
• Package / Case: *
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

20.6.6
Table 20-9.
20.6.7
8159D–AVR–02/11
Status Code
(TWSR)
Prescaler Bits
are 0
0xF8
0x00
Miscellaneous States
Combining Several TWI Modes
Status of the Two-wire Serial
Bus and Two-wire Serial Inter-
face Hardware
No relevant state information
available; TWINT = “0”
Bus error due to an illegal
START or STOP condition
Miscellaneous States
There are two status codes that do not correspond to a defined TWI state, see
Status 0xF8 indicates that no relevant information is available because the TWINT Flag is not
set. This occurs between other states, and when the TWI is not involved in a serial transfer.
Status 0x00 indicates that a bus error has occurred during a Two-wire Serial Bus transfer. A bus
error occurs when a START or STOP condition occurs at an illegal position in the format frame.
Examples of such illegal positions are during the serial transfer of an address byte, a data byte,
or an acknowledge bit. When a bus error occurs, TWINT is set. To recover from a bus error, the
TWSTO Flag must set and TWINT must be cleared by writing a logic one to it. This causes the
TWI to enter the not addressed Slave mode and to clear the TWSTO Flag (no other bits in
TWCR are affected). The SDA and SCL lines are released, and no STOP condition is
transmitted.
In some cases, several TWI modes must be combined in order to complete the desired action.
Consider for example reading data from a serial EEPROM. Typically, such a transfer involves
the following steps:
Note that data is transmitted both from Master to Slave and vice versa. The Master must instruct
the Slave what location it wants to read, requiring the use of the MT mode. Subsequently, data
must be read from the Slave, implying the use of the MR mode. Thus, the transfer direction must
be changed. The Master must keep control of the bus during all these steps, and the steps
should be carried out as an atomical operation. If this principle is violated in a multimaster sys-
tem, another Master can alter the data pointer in the EEPROM between steps 2 and 3, and the
Master will read the wrong data location. Such a change in transfer direction is accomplished by
transmitting a REPEATED START between the transmission of the address byte and reception
of the data. After a REPEATED START, the Master keeps ownership of the bus. The following
figure shows the flow in this transfer.
1. The transfer must be initiated.
2. The EEPROM must be instructed what location should be read.
3. The reading must be performed.
4. The transfer must be finished.
To/from TWDR
No TWDR action
No TWDR action
Application Software Response
STA
0
No TWCR action
STO
1
To TWCR
TWINT
1
TWEA
X
Next Action Taken by TWI Hardware
Wait or proceed current transfer
Only the internal hardware is affected, no STOP condi-
tion is sent on the bus. In all cases, the bus is released
and TWSTO is cleared.
ATmega8A
Table
20-9.
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