This board will put you in the I2C driver seat

December 10, 2018

By eeNews Europe

I²CDriver is an easy-to-use, open source tool for controlling I²C devices. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux, and has a built-in color screen that shows a live “dashboard” of all the I²C activity. It uses a standard FTDI USB serial chip to talk to the PC, so no special drivers need to be installed. The board includes a separate 3.3 V supply with voltage and current monitoring. Both professional and makers will find this a very usefull tool.

The board features:

Open hardware: the design, firmware and all tools are under BSD license
Live display: shows you exactly what it’s doing all the time
Fast transfer: sustained I²C transfers at 400 and 100 kHz
USB power monitoring: USB line voltage monitor to detect supply problems, to 0.01 V
Target power monitoring: target device high-side current measurement, to 5 mA
I²C pullups: programmable I²C pullup resistors, with automatic tuning
Three I²C ports: three identical I²C ports, each with power and I²C signals
Jumpers: color coded jumpers included in each pledge level
3.3 output: output levels are 3.3 V, all are 5 V tolerant
Supports all I²C features: 7- and 10-bit I²C addressing, clock stretching, bus arbitration
Sturdy components: uses an FTDI USB serial adapter, and Silicon Labs automotive-grade EFM8 controller
Usage reporting: reports uptime, temperature, and running CRC of all traffic
Flexible control: GUI, command-line, C/C++, and Python 2/3 host software provided for Windows, Mac, and Linux

More information:

For more information on the new I²CDriver go to the Crowd Supply website where a campaign is running. The worldwide delivery is expected to take place around March 2019.

Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/excamera/i2cdriver or go to https://www.crowdsupply.com/excamera

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