1 About the PCF8575 chip and the pcf8575 kernel driver
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4 The PCF8575 chip is produced by the following manufacturers:
7 http://www.nxp.com/#/pip/cb=[type=product,path=50807/41735/41850,final=PCF8575_3]|pip=[pip=PCF8575_3][0]
10 http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/pcf8575.html
13 Some vendors sell small PCB's with the PCF8575 mounted on it. You can connect
14 such a board to a Linux host via e.g. an USB to I2C interface. Examples of
15 PCB boards with a PCF8575:
17 * SFE Breakout Board for PCF8575 I2C Expander by RobotShop
18 http://www.robotshop.ca/home/products/robot-parts/electronics/adapters-converters/sfe-pcf8575-i2c-expander-board.html
20 * Breakout Board for PCF8575 I2C Expander by Spark Fun Electronics
21 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8130
26 The PCF8575 chip is a 16-bit I/O expander for the I2C bus. Up to eight of
27 these chips can be connected to the same I2C bus. You can find this
28 chip on some custom designed hardware, but you won't find it on PC
31 The PCF8575 chip consists of a 16-bit quasi-bidirectional port and an I2C-bus
32 interface. Each of the sixteen I/O's can be independently used as an input or
33 an output. To set up an I/O pin as an input, you have to write a 1 to the
36 For more information please see the datasheet.
42 There is no method known to detect whether a chip on a given I2C address is
43 a PCF8575 or whether it is any other I2C device, so you have to pass the I2C
44 bus and address of the installed PCF8575 devices explicitly to the driver at
45 load time via the force=... parameter.
50 For each address on which a PCF8575 chip was found or forced the following
51 files will be created under /sys:
52 * /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<bus>-<address>/read
53 * /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<bus>-<address>/write
54 where bus is the I2C bus number (0, 1, ...) and address is the four-digit
55 hexadecimal representation of the 7-bit I2C address of the PCF8575
58 The read file is read-only. Reading it will trigger an I2C read and will hence
59 report the current input state for the pins configured as inputs, and the
60 current output value for the pins configured as outputs.
62 The write file is read-write. Writing a value to it will configure all pins
63 as output for which the corresponding bit is zero. Reading the write file will
64 return the value last written, or -EAGAIN if no value has yet been written to
67 On module initialization the configuration of the chip is not changed -- the
68 chip is left in the state it was already configured in through either power-up
69 or through previous I2C write actions.