UG109
Rev 3.0, 25-Sep-2018
Innovative Power
TM
ActiveSwitcher
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is a trademark of Active-Semi.
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Button Descriptions
Read:
Clicking on this button reads the ACT8865 registers and displays them in the GUI. Note that this reads
all registers. Active-Semi recommendsreading registers each time the ACT8865 powers-up to acquire the initial
register settings.Active-semi also recommends reading registers after making changes to them. Immediately
reading the registers after a write confirms the changes were properly stored.
Read Button
Write:
Clicking on this button writes the GUI settings to the ACT8865’s registers. All registers are written,
regardless of whether or not they were changed.
Write Button
Dongle Connection Status: T
he GUI also contains a dongle is connected status which indicates that Active-
Semi’s USB-TO-I2C dongle is connected to the USB port of the driver installed. The figure below shows the two
possible indication status graphics.
Dongle connected
Dongle Disconnected