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PCA9541_5

Product data sheet

Rev. 05 — 1 October 2007

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NXP Semiconductors

PCA9541

2-to-1 I2C-bus master selector with interrupt logic and reset

8.7 Voltage translation

The pass gate transistors of the PCA9541 are constructed such that the VDD voltage can

be used to limit the maximum voltage that will be passed from one I2C-bus to another.

Figure 8 shows the voltage characteristics of the pass gate transistors (note that the graph

was generated using the data speciﬁed in Section 12 “Static characteristics” of this data

sheet). In order for the PCA9541 to act as a voltage translator, the Vo(sw) voltage should

be equal to, or lower than the lowest bus voltage. For example, if the main buses were

running at 5 V, and the downstream bus was 3.3 V, then Vo(sw) should be equal to or below

3.3 V to effectively clamp the downstream bus voltages. Looking at Figure 8, we see that

Vo(sw)(max) will be at 3.3 V when the PCA9541 supply voltage is 3.5 V or lower so the

PCA9541 supply voltage could be set to 3.3 V. Pull-up resistors can then be used to bring

the bus voltages to their appropriate levels (see Figure 17).

More Information on voltage translation can be found in Application Note

AN262:

PCA954X family of I2C/SMBus multiplexers and switches.

(1) maximum

(2) typical

(3) minimum

Fig 8.

Pass gate voltage as a function of supply voltage

VDD (V)

2.0

5.5

4.5

3.0

4.0

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3.0

2.0

4.0

5.0

Vo(sw)

(V)

1.0

3.5

5.0

2.5

(1)

(2)

(3)

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