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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Do NOT use AN502 SMBUS Altera IPCORE

Hi all, Beware of using this SMBUS protocol published at Altera website! I've spent 2 months on trying to implement and use this core. It has a lot of bugs, the manual is by all means differe...
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12 years ago

The Altera wiki has a ported version to Avalon: http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/i2c_(opencores). I've been using it with success.

I've never used it with multiple masters though. It has an arbitration loss detection but I don't remember whether this is enough to make it compatible with multiple masters on SMBus. You may have to make a few tests yourself.