SNIU028D February 2016 – September 2020 UCD3138 , UCD3138064 , UCD3138064A , UCD3138128 , UCD3138A , UCD3138A64
The UCD3138 PMBus interface hardware and firmware is designed to handle communications faults caused by glitches, interruptions, and stuck signals on the PMBus lines. In many cases, the system will recover immediately. In some cases, for example if one or both of the lines are stuck high or low, no communication will be possible. There are a few cases in which the system will may require an additional message transmission for recovery. Here are two of them: