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15 years ago

Question about the WM8731

I am doing a project on the DE2 development and education board of Altera which contains the WM8731. After reading its datasheet, I see that the WM8731 supports a 2-wire MPU serial interface that is ...
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15 years ago

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A lot of chips that support the I2C protocol never call it I2C to avoid paying a license to Philips/NXP. Some manufacturers call it TWI (two-wire interface) but it is in fact 100% compatible with I2C/SMBus.

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Thanks, that is the right answer I expected. I used the I2C protocol to control the WM8731's interface and it worked properly. In fact, the WM8731 also has a base address as every Philips semiconductors that has I2C-bus but I think it was not be provided by Philips.