I2C master command
| M_START | When ‘1’, transmit a START or REPEATED START. Whether a START or REPEATED START is transmitted depends on the state of the master state machine. A START is only transmitted when the master state machine is in the default state. A REPEATED START is transmitted when the master state machine is not in the default state, but is working on an ongoing transaction. The REPEATED START can only be transmitted after a NACK or ACK has been received for a transmitted data element or after a NACK has been transmitted for a received data element. When this action is performed, the hardware sets this field to ‘0’. |
| M_START_ON_IDLE | When ‘1’, transmit a START as soon as the bus is idle (I2C_STATUS.BUS_BUSY is ‘0’, note that BUSY has a default value of ‘0’). For bus idle detection the hardware relies on STOP detection. As a result, bus idle detection is only functional after at least one I2C bus transfer has been detected on the bus (default/reset value of BUSY is ‘0’) . A START is only transmitted when the master state machine is in the default state. When this action is performed, the hardware sets this field to ‘0’. |
| M_ACK | When ‘1’, attempt to transmit an acknowledgement (ACK). When this action is performed, the hardware sets this field to ‘0’. |
| M_NACK | When ‘1’, attempt to transmit a negative acknowledgement (NACK). When this action is performed, the hardware sets this field to ‘0’. |
| M_STOP | When ‘1’, attempt to transmit a STOP. When this action is performed, the hardware sets this field to ‘0’. I2C_M_CMD.M_START has a higher priority than this command: in situations where both a STOP and a REPEATED START could be transmitted, M_START takes precedence over M_STOP. |