Datasheet

1. General description
The PCA9575 is a CMOS device that provides 16 bits of General Purpose parallel
Input/Output (GPIO) expansion in low voltage processor and handheld battery powered
mobile applications and was developed to enhance the NXP family of I
2
C-bus I/O
expanders. The improvements include lower supply current, lower operating voltage of
1.1 V to 3.6 V, separate supply rails to allow voltage level translation anywhere between
1.1 V and 3.6 V, 400 kHz clock frequency, and smaller packaging. Any of the 16 I/O ports
can be configured as an input or output independent of each other and default on start-up
to inputs.
I/O expanders provide a simple solution when additional I/Os are needed while keeping
interconnections to a minimum; for example in battery powered mobile applications and
clamshell devices for interfacing to sensors, push buttons, keypad, etc. In addition to
providing a flexible set of GPIOs, it simplifies interconnection of a processor running at
one voltage level to I/O devices operating at a different (usually higher) voltage level.
PCA9575 has built-in level shifting feature that makes these devices extremely flexible in
mixed signal environments where communication between incompatible I/Os is required.
The core of PCA9575 can operate at a voltage as low as 1.1 V while each I/O bank can
operate in the range 1.1 V to 3.6 V. Bus hold with programmable on-chip pull-up or
pull-down feature for I/Os is also provided.
The output stage consists of two banks each of 8-bit configuration registers, input
registers, interrupt mask registers, output registers, bus-hold and pull-up/pull-down
registers and polarity inversion registers. These registers allow the system master to
program and configure 16 GPIOs through the I
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C-bus.
The system master can enable the I/Os as either inputs or outputs by writing to the I/O
configuration register bits. The data for each input or output is kept in the corresponding
Input or Output register. The polarity of the read registers can be inverted with the Polarity
Inversion register (active HIGH or active LOW operation). Either a bus-hold function or
pull-up/pull-down feature can be selected by programming corresponding registers. The
bus-hold provides a valid logic level when the I/O bus is not actively driven. When
bus-hold feature is not selected, the I/O ports can be configured to have pull-up or
pull-down by programming the pull-up/pull-down configuration register.
An open-drain interrupt output pin (INT
) allows monitoring of the input pins and is asserted
each time a change occurs on an input port unless that port is masked
(default = masked). A ‘GPIO All Call’ command allows programming multiple PCA9575s
at the same time even if they have different individual I
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C-bus addresses. This command
allows optimal code programming when more than one device must be programmed with
the same instruction or if all outputs must be turned on or off at the same time. The
PCA9575
16-bit I
2
C-bus and SMBus, level translating, low voltage GPIO
with reset and interrupt
Rev. 4 — 20 May 2014 Product data sheet