SARA-G3 and SARA-U2 series - System Integration Manual
UBX-13000995 - R08
Objective Specification
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2.6.4
DDC (I
2
C) interface
DDC (I
2
C) interface is not supported by SARA-G300 and SARA-G310 modules.
2.6.4.1
Guidelines for DDC (I
2
C) circuit design
General considerations
The DDC I
2
C-bus master interface of SARA-G340, SARA-G350 and SARA-U2 cellular modules can be used to
communicate with u-blox GNSS receivers and, on SARA-U2 modules only, it can be also used to communicate
with other external I
2
C-bus slaves as an audio codec. Beside the general considerations reported below, see:
the following parts of this section for specific guidelines for the connection to u-blox GNSS receivers.
the section 2.7.2 for an application circuit example with an external audio codec I
2
C-bus slave.
To be compliant to the I
2
C-bus specifications, the module bus interface pins are open drain output and pull up
resistors must be mounted externally. Resistor values must conform to
I
2
C bus specifications
[15]: for example,
4.7 k
resistors can be commonly used.
Connect the external DDC (I
2
C) pull-ups to the
V_INT
1.8 V supply source, or another supply source
enabled after
V_INT
(e.g., as the GNSS 1.8 V supply present in Figure 71 application circuit), as any
external signal connected to the DDC (I
2
C) interface must not be set high before the switch-on of the
V_INT
supply of the DDC (I
2
C) pins, to avoid latch-up of circuits and let a proper boot of the module.
The signal shape is defined by the values of the pull-up resistors and the bus capacitance. Long wires on the bus
increase the capacitance. If the bus capacitance is increased, use pull-up resistors with nominal resistance value
lower than 4.7 k
, to match the
I
2
C bus specifications
[15] regarding rise and fall times of the signals.
Capacitance and series resistance must be limited on the bus to match the I
2
C specifications (1.0 µs is the
maximum allowed rise time on the
SCL
and
SDA
lines): route connections as short as possible.
ESD sensitivity rating of the DDC (I
2
C) pins is 1 kV (Human Body Model according to JESD22-A114).
Higher protection level could be required if the lines are externally accessible and it can be achieved by
mounting an ESD protection (e.g. EPCOS CA05P4S14THSG varistor array) close to accessible points.
If the pins are not used as DDC bus interface, they can be left unconnected.
