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diff --git a/share/man/man4/iicbus.4 b/share/man/man4/iicbus.4 index 7c0e874..1fe8392 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/iicbus.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/iicbus.4 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The BUS physically consists of 2 active wires and a ground connection. The active wires, SDA and SCL, are both bidirectional. Where SDA is the Serial DAta line and SCL is the Serial CLock line. - +.Pp Every component hooked up to the bus has its own unique address whether it is a CPU, LCD driver, memory, or complex function chip. Each of these chips @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Obviously an LCD driver is only a receiver, while a memory or I/O chip can both be transmitter and receiver. Furthermore there may be one or more BUS MASTERs. - +.Pp The BUS MASTER is the chip issuing the commands on the BUS. In the I2C protocol specification it is stated that the IC that initiates a data transfer on the @@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ interfaces rely on very simple hardware, usually two lines twiddled by 2 registers. Hardware interfaces are more intelligent and receive 8-bit characters they write to the bus according to the I2C protocol. - +.Pp I2C interfaces may act on the bus as slave devices, allowing spontaneous bidirectional communications, thanks to the multi-master capabilities of the I2C protocol. - +.Pp Some I2C interfaces are available: .Pp .Bl -column "Interface drivers" -compact |