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Note that data is transmitted both from Master to Slave and vice versa. The Master must instruct

the Slave what location it wants to read, requiring the use of the MT mode. Subsequently, data

must be read from the Slave, implying the use of the MR mode. Thus, the transfer direction must

be changed. The Master must keep control of the bus during all these steps, and the steps

should be carried out as an atomical operation. If this principle is violated in a multimaster sys-

tem, another Master can alter the data pointer in the EEPROM between steps 2 and 3, and the

Master will read the wrong data location. Such a change in transfer direction is accomplished by

transmitting a REPEATED START between the transmission of the address byte and reception

of the data. After a REPEATED START, the Master keeps ownership of the bus. The following

figure shows the flow in this transfer.

Figure 21-20. Combining several TWI modes to access a serial EEPROM.

21.9

Multi-master systems and arbitration

If multiple masters are connected to the same bus, transmissions may be initiated simultane-

ously by one or more of them. The TWI standard ensures that such situations are handled in

such a way that one of the masters will be allowed to proceed with the transfer, and that no data

will be lost in the process. An example of an arbitration situation is depicted below, where two

masters are trying to transmit data to a Slave Receiver.

Figure 21-21. An arbitration example.

Several different scenarios may arise during arbitration, as described below:

•Two or more masters are performing identical communication with the same Slave. In this

case, neither the Slave nor any of the masters will know about the bus contention

•Two or more masters are accessing the same Slave with different data or direction bit. In this

case, arbitration will occur, either in the READ/WRITE bit or in the data bits. The masters

trying to output a one on SDA while another Master outputs a zero will lose the arbitration.

Losing masters will switch to not addressed Slave mode or wait until the bus is free and

transmit a new START condition, depending on application software action

Master transmitter

Master receiver

S = START

Rs = REPEATED START

P = STOP

Transmitted from master to slave

Transmitted from slave to master

SLA+W

ADDRESS

SLA+R

DATA

Device 1

MASTER

TRANSMITTER

Device 2

MASTER

TRANSMITTER

Device 3

SLAVE

RECEIVER

Device n

SDA

SCL

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