On 16 June 2014 09:29, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Will, confirms what I thought I'd understood from reading, apparently
> i2c is a trademark and most people refer to it as TWI (Two Wire Interface).

I've never heard it called that before :)

> When speaking about faster, I don't know that it really matters, does it?
> I'll be controlling a shift register for colour coding some RGB LEDs, and
> reading from an accelerometer... I don't expect that to need much bandwidth,
> really!

It really just depends on what your hardware does, and what bandwidth you need.

>> (sparks, electric motors etc.) then you might get interference on the
>> SPI/I2C bus, program and design your hardware accordingly.
>
> Thanks mate, good to know
> , does that more or less boil down to "don't put noisy components next to
> data busses"? How do the problems manifest, mangled bits, protocol errors
> and nonsense values, or does it fail to work under some circumstances?

Yep, and get your ground planes right, shielding, and use filter
capacitors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_capacitor

Will

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