LTC4301 Supply Independent Hot Swappable 2-Wire Bus Buffer UFEATURESDESCRIPTIO ■ Allows Bus Pull-Up Voltages Above or Below VCC The LTC®4301 supply independent, hot swappable, 2-wire ■ Bidirectional Buffer* for SDA and SCL Lines bus buffer allows I/O card insertion into a live backplane Increases Fanout without corruption of the data and clock busses. In addi- ■ Prevents SDA and SCL Corruption During Live Board tion, the LTC4301 allows the VCC, SDAIN and SCLIN pull- Insertion and Removal from Backplane up voltage and the SDAOUT and SCLOUT pull-up voltage ■ Isolates Input SDA and SCL Line from Output to be independent from each other. Control circuitry ■ 10kV Human Body Model ESD Protection prevents the backplane from being connected to the card ■ 1V Precharge On All SDA and SCL Lines until a stop bit or a bus idle is present. When the connec- ■ Supports Clock Stretching, Arbitration and tion is made, the LTC4301 provides bidirectional buffer- Synchronization ing, keeping the backplane and card capacitances isolated. ■ High Impedance SDA, SCL Pins for VCC = 0V During insertion, the SDA and SCL lines are precharged to ■ CS Gates Connection from Input to Output 1V to minimize bus disturbances. When driven low, the CS ■ Compatible with I2CTM, I2C Fast Mode and SMBus input pin allows the part to connect after a stop bit or bus Standards (Up to 400kHz Operation) idle occurs. Driving CS high breaks the connection be- ■ Small 8-Pin MSOP and DFN (3mm × 3mm) Packages tween SCLIN and SCLOUT and between SDAIN and UAPPLICATIO S SDAOUT. The READY output pin indicates that the back- plane and card sides are connected together. ■ Hot Board Insertion The LTC4301 is offered in 8-pin DFN (3mm × 3mm) and ■ Servers MSOP packages. ■ Capacitance Buffer/Bus Extender ■ Desktop Computers , LT, LTC and LTM are registered trademarks of Linear Technology Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ■ CompactPCI TM and ATCA Systems Protected by U.S. Patents including 7032051. UTYPICAL APPLICATIOInput-Output Connection 3.3V 5V 0.01µF 10k 10k V 10k 10k CC LTC4301 SCLIN SCLOUT BACK_SCL CARD_SCL OUTPUT INPUT SIDE SIDE 20pF 55pF SDAIN SDAOUT BACK_SDA CARD_SDA AGGERED CONNECTOR 5V 1V/DIV ST 10k CS READY GND 4301 TA01b 1µs/DIV 4301 TA01 BACKPLANE CARD CONNECTOR 4301fb 1