TCA9546A

The TCA9546A is a 4-channel, bidirectional translating switch for I 2 C buses that supports Standard-Mode (100
kHz) and Fast-Mode (400 kHz) operation

TCA9546A是一个４频道双向传输的i2c复用芯片，可以支持标准的100KHZ和高速传输的400KHZ.

 

The TCA9546A features I 2 C control using a single 8-bit control register
in which the four least significant bits control the enabling and disabling of the 4 switch channels of I 2 C data flow

TCA9546A使用一个8位的控制寄存器，其中的低４位来控制开关这４路i2c数据流频道．

 

The connections of the I 2 C data path are controlled by the same I 2 C master device that is switched to
communicate with multiple I 2 C slaves. After the successful acknowledgment of the slave address (hardware
selectable by A0 and A1 pins), a single 8-bit control register is written to or read from to determine the selected
channels

A0和A1是硬件连接，如果接地那么就全是０.

由于我遇到的情况,A2,A1,A0均接地，所以slave address = 0xE0.

下表是控制寄存器的情况．

0x01 channel0

0x02 channel1

0x04 channel2

0x08 channel3

 

当需要使用channel 0时，首先需要:
发送 tca9546a 的slave address: 0xE1(写模式).
然后发送Control register : 0x1.

然后再使用正常的i2c写，比如这个时候你连接的是一个camera sensor, slave 地址是0x70, 这个时候使用你当前芯片的正常写i2c的步骤即可．只是需要在执行之前设置好tca9546a的channel，好让它知道当前是使用哪个channel．

 

当你需要读设备的寄存器时，同样， 需要先发送:

tca9546a的slave address :0xE1(读模式)，然后发送

0x1,选择channel．

然后调用当前芯片的i2c读api函数．