tpltnt/usitwislave

Software TWI/I2C implementation for ATtiny devices using USI.

This is a simple i2c/twi slave implementation using the USI module found on several attiny models.

It has been loosely based on work by Atmel (Application Note 312) and work by Donald Blake (several fixes to the Atmel code, these are included in this code).

I have found a few other situations that would cause mayhem and have been fixed:

• Bus lockup after the master has written to a non-existent slave address.
• Slave would receive bytes not addressed to it when a master would address two or more slaves after each other, without sending a stop condition in between ("repeated start").

Probably there are still other bugs / conditions left, which I haven't run in yet...

Differences to existing code (by Atmel and Donald Blake):

• Actually works, slave can reply data (as opposed to the Atmel version).
• Completely different coding style (higher level, but keeping same compiler output) than Donald Blake's version, you may or may not like that ;-).
• Compiles standalone to a library file (.a) and a header (.h) that can be included into several projects independantly. Please make sure you're using a version that was compiled for the device you're using (see Makefile).
• Added support for a few newer attiny devices
• Added support for USI bus on port A when using attiny*61 devices (this is a library compile time option though, because it MUST work with #defines). Add -DUSI_ON_PORT_A in the Makefile to the "CFLAGS" section to enable it.
• Last but not least: support for "complete" transactions, i.e. start-data-stop and act upon it, instead of waiting for the next start condition. Due to poor design of USI, the stop condition can only be polled, so the mcu needs to busy wait on the stop condition flag. I've found a way to only do busy polling when it is necessary, i.e. when a transaction is actually running. Otherwise, the mcu waits in sleep mode (if specified using use_sleep, see below).

Usage is quite simple: in your main loop, after all initialisations are done, call usi_twi_slave(slave_address, use_sleep, data_callback, idle_callback) where slave_address is you slave's requested address, use_sleep is != 0 if it's okay to sleep when idle (save's a few milliWatts, but causes the idle callback to be called rather less frequent, don't use it if you depend on the idle callback) and callback is a pointer to a function that is called when a stop condition occurs after a valid transaction has been completed. Your callback should be defined like this (see header file as well):

static void twi_callback(uint8_t input_buffer_length, const uint8_t *input_buffer,
                         uint8_t *output_buffer_length, uint8_t *output_buffer)

• input_buffer_length = the amount of bytes received from the master
• input_buffer = the bytes received from the master
• output_buffer_length = the amount of bytes you want to send back to the master
• output_buffer = the bytes you want to send back to the master

The input buffer is cleared after every valid transaction so you'll never see the same bytes from the master twice. The output buffer is cleared after all bytes are sent as well.

The idle_callback is an optional callback that will be called when there is nothing to do (and we're not sleeping, see use_sleep), it's defined as void idle_callback(void). If you're not using it, specify NULL.