ZHCSJK2O October 2004 – September 2023 PCA9306
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Another situation where PCA9306 is advantageous when using its enable feature is when a remote board with I2C lines needs to be attached to a main board (backplane) with an I2C bus such as in Figure 8-4. If connecting a remote board to a backplane is not done properly, the connection could result in data corruption during a transaction or the insertion could generate an unintended pulse on the SCL line. Which could glitch an I2C device state machine causing the I2C bus to get stuck.
PCA9306 can be used to support this application because it can be disabled while making the connection. Then it is enabled once the remote board is powered on and the buses on both sides are IDLE.