RoadNarrows Robotics I2C Package

Introduction

The I²C package provides basic interfaces to devices connected to an I²C Bus.

Package List

libi2c

The I²C library.

i2ccheck (I2CCHECK(1))

Check for a device on the I²C Bus device.

i2cread (I2CREAD(1))

Read bytes from an I²C Bus device.

i2cscan (I2CSCAN(1))

Scan the I²C Bus for all attached devices.

i2csh (I2CSH(1))

Simple I² Bus command-line shell.

i2ctrans (I2CTRANS(1))

Do a write/read transaction for to a device on the I²C Bus.

i2cwrite (I2CWRITE(1))

Write bytes to an I²C Bus device.

Requirements

librnr - RNR standard libray 1.

Todo:

1. Add support to System Management Bus (SMBus) address resolution (http://www.smbus.org/).

Supported Platforms

• i386 - any Linux Intel (backwards) compatible 32-bit architecures
• x86_64 - any Linux AMD 64-bit architectures
• armpxa - Linux Intel XScale PXA Arm architecures.
• cygwin - Windows systems with installed cygwin.
• osx - Mac OS-X architectures

Tested Systems

• Fedora Core 5 and 6 Linux for the i386 and x86_64 architectures.
• Ubuntus 9.4 Linux for the i386 and x86_64 architectures.
• Familiar Linux 2.4 (K-Team KoreBot version) for the XScale PXA 255 Arm
• Windows XP with Cygwin for Intel processors.
• Mac OS-X 10.x for Intel processors.