The M2WIS adds two-wire slave capability to the M8051W and M8051EW designs that is compatible with the I2C Fast protocol. It includes hardware support for 7-bit and 10-bit device addressing modes and a general call address and address ranges. Clock stretching can be achieved under register control in order to implement flow control.
The M2WIS is designed to bind tightly to an M8051W or M8051EW SFR bus. Data, control and status information are exchanged with the host microcontroller using memory-mapped 8-bit words. A single interrupt signal is used to indicate that a matching address has been received, that data buffers require service or that an exception has been detected. Use of standard synchronous design methodology makes this core simple to integrate into both ASIC SoC and FPGA designs.
