16F819 & I2C sensor

edi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 82

HI,

I want to connect an I2C sensor to the 16F819.
I saw in the data sheet that this device is only I2C slave.
Is that mean that I can't read from the sensor?
If yes, can someone please send me a simple example for that.

Edi.

Mark · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 2838 Location: Atlanta, GA

You can implement the I2C master in firmware. CCS has functions for that as well as example programs. Look at the eeprom examples. Without knowing which sensor that's about all the help I can give you.

edi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 82

Thanks Mark,

The sensor I need to use is:
SHT1x/SHT7x from : Sensirion.

http://www.sensirion.com/en/02_products/00_products.htm?cat=3&art=5

asmallri · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 1634 Location: Perth, Australia

The sensirion sensors are not I2C devices. The protocol is similar but not the same as I2C. It is easy enough to "bit bash" to implement it in the PIC. If you do a search for Sensirion on this site you will find code posted by others.
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rnielsen · Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 852 Location: Utah

I am, currently, using the SHTXX sensor in one of my designs. I had four sensors connected up to the I2C bus utilizing a multiplexer (SN74CBT3253). Since each sensor has the same address you cannot communicate with multiple ones on the same bus unless you use a multiplexer like this. I put 1K pull-up resistors on the Master side and also 1K resistors on each of the sensor buses. Then I simply addressed the multiplexer with a couple of outputs, from the Master, for the sensor that I wanted to talk to.

It's possible to have this sensor connected to the I2C bus but I found it needs to have the bus isolated with something like the multiplexer. The Start signal, of the sensor, is not a standard I2C Start either. It incorporates both a Start and Stop to signal you want to talk to it. It took me a while to figure out how to get it to work on the I2C bus and is a bit easier simply to bit-bang it with separate outputs from the Master.

When the data sheet says that the device is only a Slave, it just means that it cannot act as a master to control other devices. You can talk to it, read from it with a Master. You can even write to certain registers inside of the sensor. Mostly to turn on an internal heater to remove condensation, if needed, before making a reading. You would turn off the heater before you would read the RH/Temperature, of course.

Ronald