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4.1.1

TC5405 Overview

As shown in Figure 1, a ten bit serial transfer is required to set the five outputs on the TCA5405. The first

four bits, 0101 (S0-S3), act as a start flag for the TCA5405. S0 is a start bit and S1-S3 are the clock sense

bits for the TCA5405. The next five bits (D4-D0) are the data bits associated with each of the outputs. The

tenth bit returns the serial line back to high to ready the TCA5405 for the next input.

In the source code there are two methods to handle this communication. These functions are located in

Single_Wire.c

1. Use a GPIO (general purpose input/output) and a clock delay to emulate S0-D0.

2. Use one of the MSP430 timers to change the output at a specified bit interval.

4.1.2

bit_bang_TCA5405_byte(unsigned char byte)

The function bi_bang_TCA5405_byte(unsigned char byte) will emulate the required ten bits for

communication with the TCA5405. This function works very simply by driving a GPIO pin to high or low

and utilizing the _delay_cycles() function to hold the value. After each assert on the GPIO pin a

_delay_cycles(16) is called to wait roughly 2 microseconds before the next bit. The section that handles

the data bits (D4-D0) only uses a _delay_cycles(10) function; this is to adjust for the time spent on if

statements.

4.1.3

send_TCA5405_byte

The function send_TCA5405_byte(unsigned char byte) along with 5405_Timer_ISR() implements the

required serial data by using one of the MSP430 timers. When a byte is sent to send_TCA5405_byte(),

the function adds the start flag (S0-S3) to the beginning and the stop bit (1) to the end (LSB), stores the

new value to a global variable, and enables the timer interrupts. After a set number of clock cycles defined

by NEXT_BIT_TIME, 5405_Timer_ISR() is called and adjusts the output of the P2.0 accordingly.

NOTE:

The start flag S0-S3 is hard coded into each of these methods

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– December 2011

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