24AA32 MicrochipTechnology, 24AA32 Datasheet - Page 6

• Manufacturer Part Number: 24AA32
• Description: 32K1.8VI2COSmartSerialEEPROM
• Manufacturer: MicrochipTechnology

24AA32
4.0
4.1
The 24AA32 is organized as a continuous 32K block of
memory. However, the first 4K, starting at address 000,
is rated at 10,000,000 E/W cycles guaranteed. The
remainder of the array, 28K bits, is rated at 100,000 E/
W cycles guaranteed. This feature is helpful in applica-
tions in which some data change frequently, while a
majority of the data change infrequently. One example
would be a cellular telephone in which last-number
redial and microcontroller scratch pad require a high-
endurance block, while speed dials and lookup tables
change infrequently and so require only a standard
endurance rating.
4.2
Following the start condition from the master, the con-
trol code (four bits), the device select (three bits), and
the R/W bit which is a logic low are clocked onto the bus
by the master transmitter.
addressed slave receiver that a byte with a word
address will follow after it has generated an acknowl-
edge bit during the ninth clock cycle. Therefore the next
byte transmitted by the master is the high-order byte of
the word address and will be written into the address
pointer of the 24AA32. The next byte is the least signif-
icant address byte. After receiving another acknowl-
edge signal from the 24AA32 the master device will
transmit the data word to be written into the addressed
memory location.
FIGURE 4-1:
FIGURE 4-2:
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Bus Activity:
Master
SDA Line
Bus Activity
WRITE OPERATION
Split Endurance
Byte Write
Bus Activity:
Master
SDA Line
Bus Activity
BYTE WRITE
PAGE WRITE (FOR CACHE WRITE, SEE FIGURE 7-1)
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Control
Byte
This indicates to the
Control
Byte
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Address (1)
Word
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0 0 0 0
Address (1)
Word
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Address (0)
Word
The 24AA32 acknowledges again and the master gen-
erates a stop condition. This initiates the internal write
cycle, and during this time the 24AA32 will not generate
acknowledge signals (Figure 4-1).
4.3
The write control byte, word address and the first data
byte are transmitted to the 24AA32 in the same way as
in a byte write. But instead of generating a stop condi-
tion, the master transmits up to eight pages of eight
data bytes each (64 bytes total) which are temporarily
stored in the on-chip page cache of the 24AA32. They
will be written from cache into the EEPROM array after
the master has transmitted a stop condition. After the
receipt of each word, the six lower order address
pointer bits are internally incremented by one. The
higher order seven bits of the word address remain con-
stant. If the master should transmit more than eight
bytes prior to generating the stop condition (writing
across a page boundary), the address counter (lower
three bits) will roll over and the pointer will be incre-
mented to point to the next line in the cache. This can
continue to occur up to eight times or until the cache is
full, at which time a stop condition should be generated
by the master. If a stop condition is not received, the
cache pointer will roll over to the first line (byte 0) of the
cache, and any further data received will overwrite pre-
viously captured data. The stop condition can be sent
at any time during the transfer. As with the byte write
operation, once a stop condition is received, an internal
write cycle will begin. The 64-byte cache will continue
to capture data until a stop condition occurs or the oper-
ation is aborted (Figure 4-2).
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Address (0)
Word
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Page Write
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