1What is smsc-ece1099?
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4The ECE1099 is a 40-Pin 3.3V Keyboard Scan Expansion
5or GPIO Expansion device. The device supports a keyboard
6scan matrix of 23x8. The device is connected to a Master
7via the SMSC BC-Link interface or via the SMBus.
8Keypad scan Input(KSI) and Keypad Scan Output(KSO) signals
9are multiplexed with GPIOs.
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11Interrupt generation
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14Interrupts can be generated by an edge detection on a GPIO
15pin or an edge detection on one of the bus interface pins.
16Interrupts can also be detected on the keyboard scan interface.
17The bus interrupt pin (BC_INT# or SMBUS_INT#) is asserted if
18any bit in one of the Interrupt Status registers is 1 and
19the corresponding Interrupt Mask bit is also 1.
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21In order for software to determine which device is the source
22of an interrupt, it should first read the Group Interrupt Status Register
23to determine which Status register group is a source for the interrupt.
24Software should read both the Status register and the associated Mask register,
25then AND the two values together. Bits that are 1 in the result of the AND
26are active interrupts. Software clears an interrupt by writing a 1 to the
27corresponding bit in the Status register.
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29Communication Protocol
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32- SMbus slave Interface
33	The host processor communicates with the ECE1099 device
34	through a series of read/write registers via the SMBus
35	interface. SMBus is a serial communication protocol between
36	a computer host and its peripheral devices. The SMBus data
37	rate is 10KHz minimum to 400 KHz maximum
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39- Slave Bus Interface
40	The ECE1099 device SMBus implementation is a subset of the
41	SMBus interface to the host. The device is a slave-only SMBus device.
42	The implementation in the device is a subset of SMBus since it
43	only supports four protocols.
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45	The Write Byte, Read Byte, Send Byte, and Receive Byte protocols are the
46	only valid SMBus protocols for the device.
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48- BC-LinkTM Interface
49	The BC-Link is a proprietary bus that allows communication
50	between a Master device and a Companion device. The Master
51	device uses this serial bus to read and write registers
52	located on the Companion device. The bus comprises three signals,
53	BC_CLK, BC_DAT and BC_INT#. The Master device always provides the
54	clock, BC_CLK, and the Companion device is the source for an
55	independent asynchronous interrupt signal, BC_INT#. The ECE1099
56	supports BC-Link speeds up to 24MHz.
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