
41
Rev. B
OPERATION
Refer to Figure 7 for a legend.
Handshaking features are included to ensure robust system communication. Please refer to the PMBus Communication
and Command Processing subsection of the Applications Information section for further details.
SDA
SCL
t
HD(STA)
t
HD(DAT)
t
SU(STA)
t
SU(STO)
t
SU(DAT)
t
LOW
t
HD(SDA)
t
SP
t
BUF
START
CONDITION
STOP
CONDITION
REPEATED START
CONDITION
START
CONDITION
t
r
t
f
t
r
t
f
t
HIGH
4680 F06
Figure 6. PMBus Timing Diagram
Table 6. Abbreviations of Supported Data Formats
PMBus
ADI
TERMINOLOGY DEFINITION
EXAMPLE
TERMINOLOGY
SPECIFICATION
REFERENCE
L11
Linear
Part II ¶7.1
Linear_5s_1s Floating point 16-bit data: value = Y • 2
N
,
where N = b[15:11] and Y = b[10:0], both
two’s compliment binary integers
b[15:0] = 0x9807 = 10011_000_0000_0111
value = 7 • 2
–13
= 854E-6
L16
Linear
VOUT_MODE
Part II ¶8.2
Linear_16u
Floating point 16-bit data: value = Y • 2
–12
,
where Y = b[15:0], an unsigned integer
b[15:0] = 0x4C00 = 0100_1100_0000_0000
value = 19456 • 2
–12
= 4.75
CF
DIRECT
Part II ¶7.2
Varies
16-bit data with a custom format defined in
the detailed PMBus command description
Often an unsigned or two’s compliment
integer
Reg
Register Bits
Part II ¶10.3
Reg
Per-bit meaning defined in detailed PMBus
command description
PMBus STATUS_BYTE command
ASC
Text Characters
Part II ¶22.2.1
ASCII
ISO/IEC 8859-1 [A05]
LTC (0x4C5443)