DESIGN OF A CUSTOM ASIC INCORPORATING CAN™ AND 1 ...

To write data to the DS1996, the scratchpad has to be used as an intermediate storage
area. First, the 1 – Wire® Master issues the Write Scratchpad command (0xF0) to specify the
desired target address, followed by the data to be written to the scratchpad. In the next step, the
1 – Wire® Master sends the Read Scratchpad command (0xAA) to read the scratchpad and to
verify data integrity. As preamble to the scratchpad data, the DS1996 sends the requested target
address TA1 and TA2 and the contents of the E/S register. If one of the flags OF or PF is set,
data did not arrive correctly in the scratchpad. The master does not need to continue reading; it
can start a new trial to write data to the scratchpad. Similarly, a set AA flag indicates that the
Write command was not recognized by the DS1996. If everything works correctly, all three
flags are cleared and the ending offset indicates the address of the last byte written to the
scratchpad. Now the 1 – Wire® Master can continue verifying every data bit. After the 1 –
Wire® Master has verified the data it has to send the Copy Scratchpad command (0x55). This
command must be followed exactly by the data of the three address registers TA1, TA2, and E/S
as the 1 – Wire® Master has read them verifying the scratchpad contents. As soon as the slave
has received these bytes, it will copy the data to the requested location beginning at the target
address. The communication between the 1 – Wire® Master and the DS1996 takes place either
at regular speed or at overdrive speed. If not explicitly set into the Overdrive Mode, the DS1996
assumes regular speed.
6.2.1.2 Test Results – Transferring CAN data bytes to 1 – Wire® devices
To conduct this test, three DS1996 1 – Wire® slaves are present on the 1 – Wire®
network, providing a total of 196,608 bits (24,576 bytes) of memory. Figure 6.2 shows the
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