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The upper seven bits are the address to which the Two-wire Serial Interface will respond when addressed by a
Master. If the LSB is set, the TWI will respond to the general call address (0x00), otherwise it will ignore the general
call address.
TWEN must be written to one to enable the TWI. The TWEA bit must be written to one to enable the acknowledge-
ment of the device’s own slave address or the general call address. TWSTA and TWSTO must be written to zero.
When TWAR and TWCR have been initialized, the TWI waits until it is addressed by its own slave address (or the
general call address if enabled) followed by the data direction bit. If the direction bit is “1” (read), the TWI will oper-
ate in ST mode, otherwise SR mode is entered. After its own slave address and the write bit have been received,
the TWINT Flag is set and a valid status code can be read from TWSR. The status code is used to determine the
appropriate software action. The appropriate action to be taken for each status code is detailed in
Table 21-7. The
Slave Transmitter mode may also be entered if arbitration is lost while the TWI is in the Master mode (see state
0xB0).
If the TWEA bit is written to zero during a transfer, the TWI will transmit the last byte of the transfer. State 0xC0 or
state 0xC8 will be entered, depending on whether the Master Receiver transmits a NACK or ACK after the final
byte. The TWI is switched to the not addressed Slave mode, and will ignore the Master if it continues the transfer.
Thus the Master Receiver receives all “1” as serial data. State 0xC8 is entered if the Master demands additional
data bytes (by transmitting ACK), even though the Slave has transmitted the last byte (TWEA zero and expecting
NACK from the Master).
While TWEA is zero, the TWI does not respond to its own slave address. However, the Two-wire Serial Bus is still
monitored and address recognition may resume at any time by setting TWEA. This implies that the TWEA bit may
be used to temporarily isolate the TWI from the Two-wire Serial Bus.
In all sleep modes other than Idle mode, the clock system to the TWI is turned off. If the TWEA bit is set, the inter-
face can still acknowledge its own slave address or the general call address by using the Two-wire Serial Bus clock
as a clock source. The part will then wake up from sleep and the TWI will hold the SCL clock will low during the
wake up and until the TWINT Flag is cleared (by writing it to one). Further data transmission will be carried out as
normal, with the AVR clocks running as normal. Observe that if the AVR is set up with a long start-up time, the SCL
line may be held low for a long time, blocking other data transmissions.
Note that the Two-wire Serial Interface Data Register – TWDR does not reflect the last byte present on the bus
when waking up from these sleep modes.
TWCR
TWINT
TWEA
TWSTA
TWSTO
TWWC
TWEN
–
TWIE
value
0
100
01
0
X