Version

4.0.1

Date: 27 Sep 2016

Source Code Repository: https://github.com/4-20ma/I2cDiscreteIoExpander

Programming Style Guidelines: http://geosoft.no/development/cppstyle.html

Features: The PCF8575C provides general-purpose remote I/O expansion for most microcontroller families via the I2C interface serial clock (SCL) and serial data (SDA).

The device features a 16-bit quasi-bidirectional input/output (I/O) port (P07..P00, P17..P10), including latched outputs with high-current drive capability for directly driving LEDs. Each quasi-bidirectional I/O can be used as an input or output without the use of a data-direction control signal. At power on, the I/Os are in 3-state mode. The strong pullup to VCC allows fast-rising edges into heavily loaded outputs. This device turns on when an output is written high and is switched off by the negative edge of SCL. The I/Os should be high before being used as inputs. After power on, as all the I/Os are set to 3-state, all of them can be used as inputs. Any change in setting of the I/Os as either inputs or outputs can be done with the write mode. If a high is applied externally to an I/O that has been written earlier to low, a large current (IOL) flows to GND.

The fixed I2C address of the PCF8575C (0x20) is the same as the PCF8575, PCF8574, PCA9535, and PCA9555, allowing up to eight of these devices, in any combination, to share the same I2C bus or SMBus.

Schematic

                                        Arduino
                                       .--------------------.
                                       |Duemilanove         |
                                       |                    |
         TI PCF8575C        .---------o|5V                  |
        .-------_-------.   |          |                    |
      -o|1 /INT   VCC 24|o--'   o-----o|GND                 |
        |               |       |      |                    |
.------o|2  A1    SDA 23|o------)-----o|A4 SDA              |
|       |               |       |      |                    |
o------o|3  A2    SCL 22|o------)-----o|A5 SCL              |
|       |               |       |      '--------------------'
|     -o|4  P00    A0 21|o------o
|       |               |       |
|     -o|5  P01   P17 20|o-     |
|       |               |       |
|     -o|6  P02   P16 19|o-     |
|       |               |       |
|     -o|7  P03   P15 18|o-     |
|       |               |       |
|     -o|8  P04   P14 17|o-     |
|       |               |       |
|     -o|9  P05   P13 16|o-     |
|       |               |       |
|     -o|10 P06   P12 15|o-     |
|       |               |       |
|     -o|11 P07   P11 14|o-     |
|       |               |       |
o------o|12 GND   P10 13|o-     |
|       '---------------'       |
|                               |
'-------------------------------o
                                |
                                |
                               ===
                               GND

Caveats: Conforms to Arduino IDE 1.5 Library Specification v2.1 which requires Arduino IDE >= 1.5.

Support: Please submit an issue for all questions, bug reports, and feature requests. Email requests will be politely redirected to the issue tracker so others may contribute to the discussion and requestors get a more timely response.

Author: Doc Walker (4-20ma@wvfans.net)

License

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