ADI LTC4300A-3IMS8#PBF

The LTC4300A-3 hot swappable 2-wire bus buffer allows I/O card insertion into a live backplane without corruption of the data and clock busses. When the connection is made, the LTC4300A-3 provides bidirectional buffering, keeping the backplane and card capacitances isolated. Rise time accelerator circuitry allows the use of weaker DC pull-up currents while still meeting rise time requirements. During insertion, the SDA and SCL lines are precharged to 1V to minimize bus disturbances. The LTC4300A-3 provides level translation between 3.3V and 5V supplies. The backplane and card can both be powered with supplies ranging from 2.7V to 5.5V. The LTC4300A-3 also incorporates a CMOS threshold ENABLE pin which forces the part into a low current mode and isolates the card from the backplane. When driven to VCC, the ENABLE pin sets normal operation. The LTC4300A-3 is available in the MSOP and 3mm × 3mm DFN packages.

• Bidirectional Buffer for SDA and SCL Lines
• Increases Fanout
• Prevents SDA and SCL Corruption During Live Board Insertion and Removal From Backplane
• Logic Threshold ENABLE Input
• Isolates Input SDA and SCL Lines From Output
• Compatible with I²C, I2C Fast Mode and SMBus Standards (Up to 400kHz Operation)
• 1V Precharge on all SDA and SCL Lines
• Supports Clock Stretching, Arbitration and Synchronization
• 5V to 3.3V Level Translation
• High Impedance SDA, SCL Pins for VGC = 0V, VCC2 = 0V
• Small 8-Lead DFN and MSOP Packages

• Hot Board Insertion
• Servers
• Capacitance Buffer/Bus Extender
• Desktop Computer