SNIU028D February 2016 – September 2020 UCD3138 , UCD3138064 , UCD3138064A , UCD3138128 , UCD3138A , UCD3138A64
This section and the following ones reference specific registers and bitfields in the PMBus/I2C interface. There are several ways to use the PMBus for slave mode. Many TI EVM codes use polling, not interrupts. It’s not hard to write the background loop to call the PMBus function every 2 or 3 msec worst case. This is plenty to meet the PMBus timing requirements. It frees up the CPU for more urgent power supply tasks. It is also possible to use interrupts to run the PMBus.