I[SUP]2[/SUP]C as many of you know, is a simple serial interface for many peripheral devices to micro controllers, but it can quickly become confusing to people who may not be accustom to it. Because of that, I[SUP]2[/SUP]C tutorials are always welcome, and this new tutorial by [Embedds] does an excellent job of how to use I[SUP]2[/SUP]C with an AVR with a 24C16 2Kbyte EEPROM.
The first half of the tutorial provides a clear explanation of how I[SUP]2[/SUP]C works, including its signal structure, addressing, and data packets. It then moves on to AVR territory showing how to setup the I[SUP]2[/SUP]C in an AtMega micro controller. The author uses a pretty standard to most of us Arduino, with software written in AVR C and a nifty little GUI programming application which eases the hassle of dealing with AVRDude directly.
Plenty of code samples follow from twiddling registers to a full blown application reading and writing bits from the EEPROM to a serial terminal on a PC.
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