Perform non-blocking communication on I²C bus

This application note tackles one of the possible ways to perform the non-blocking communication on the I²C bus. It also provides the example c-code for the I²C master.

The blocking communication means that the MCU stalls until the byte is transferred from the data register. In the code, this is usually implemented as checking of the status bit in the "while" loop. However, this approach might not be applicable for some time-critical applications. Assuming anI²C speed of 100kHz, transmission of 1B will stall the CPU for 9?s. The total time while the CPU is waiting for data transmitting or receiving is much higher because the I²C message consists of at least three bytes.

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Originally published by Freescale Semiconductor at www.freescale.com as "I²C Non-Blocking Communication".