The I²C slave to AHB bridge core is a I²C slave that provides a link between the I²C bus and AMBA AHB. The core is compatible with the Philips I²C standard.

On the I²C bus the slave acts as an I²C memory device where accesses to the slave are translated to AMBA accesses. The core can translate I²C accesses to AMBA byte, halfword or word accesses. The core makes use of I²C clock stretching but can also be configured to use a special mode with clock stretching in order to support systems where limitations of the master or physical layer prevent stretching of the I²C clock period.

Features

• AMBA AHB interface
• Optional APB interface for software configuration
• Optional programmable I²C addresses - The initial addresses are configurable via VHDL generics. The designer can choose to leave the core's address programmable via an APB mapped register.
• Can map the full 4 GiB AMBA address space or an address range specified by the designer at implementation, or by software via the optional APB interface.
• Optional clock stretching

For more information, please see the GRLIB IP Core User's Manual

Availability

• The core is available under a commercial license and also under the GPL.