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ATmega128
Note that arbitration is not allowed between:
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A REPEATED START condition and a data bit
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A STOP condition and a data bit
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A REPEATED START and a STOP condition
It is the user software’s responsibility to ensure that these illegal arbitration conditions never
occur. This implies that in multi-master systems, all data transfers must use the same composi-
tion of SLA+R/W and data packets. In other words: All transmissions must contain the same
number of data packets, otherwise the result of the arbitration is undefined.