PCA9512BDP: Level shifting hot swappable I²C-bus and SMBus bus buffer

The PCA9512A/B is a hot swappable I²C-bus and SMBus buffer that allows I/O card insertion into a live backplane without corruption of the data and clock buses and includes two dedicated supply voltage pins to provide level shifting between 3.3 V and 5 V systems while maintaining the best noise margin for each voltage level. Either pin may be powered with supply voltages ranging from 2.7 V to 5.5 V with no constraints on which supply voltage is higher. Control circuitry prevents the backplane from being connected to the card until a stop bit or bus idle occurs on the backplane without bus contention on the card. When the connection is made, the PCA9512A/B provides bidirectional buffering, keeping the backplane and card capacitances isolated.

Both the PCA9512A and PCA9512B use identical silicon (PCN201012007F dated 13 Dec 2010), so the PCA9512B will be discontinued in the near future and is not recommended for new designs.

The PCA9512A/B rise time accelerator circuitry allows the use of weaker DC pull-up currents while still meeting rise time requirements. The PCA9512A/B incorporates a digital input pin that enables and disables the rise time accelerators on all four SDAn and SCLn pins.

During insertion, the PCA9512A/B SDAn and SCLn pins are precharged to 1 V to minimize the current required to charge the parasitic capacitance of the chip.

The incremental offset design of the PCA9510A/11A/12A/12B/13A/14A I/O drivers allows them to be connected to another PCA9510A/11A/12A/12B/13A/14A device in series or in parallel and to the I²C compliant side of static offset bus buffers, but not to the static offset side of those bus buffers.

Outline 3d SOT505-1
Data Sheets (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
Level shifting hot swappable I2C-bus and SMBus bus buffer (REV 6.0) PDF (315.0 kB) PCA9512A_PCA9512B01 Mar 2013
Users Guides (3)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
I2C-bus specification and user manual (REV 6.0) PDF (1.4 MB) UM1020428 Apr 2014
I2C-bus specification and user manual (REV 5.0) PDF (1.6 MB) UM10204_JA03 Apr 2013
I2C Demonstration Board 2005-1 Quick Start Guide (REV 1.0) PDF (261.0 kB) UM1020613 Jun 2006
Brochures (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
NXP® I2C-bus solutions 2014: Smart, simple solutions for the 12 most common design concerns (REV 1.0) PDF (3.5 MB) 7501754001 Aug 2014
Package Information (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
plastic thin shrink small outline package; 8 leads; body width 3 mm (REV 1.0) PDF (240.0 kB) SOT505-108 Feb 2016
Packing (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
TSSOP8; Reel pack; SMD, 13" Q1/T1 Standard product orientation Orderable part number ending ,118 or... (REV 1.0) PDF (214.0 kB) SOT505-1_11815 Apr 2013
Supporting Information (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
Reflow Soldering Profile (REV 1.0) PDF (34.0 kB) REFLOW_SOLDERING_PROFILE30 Sep 2013
IBIS Model
Ordering Information
ProductStatusPackage versionApplicationEnableFunctionOperating Temperature (Cel)Number of bitsVoltage Translation Range (V)Operating voltage (VDC)Operating voltage 2 (V)InputsOutputsTTL Drive (mA)GTL Drive (mA)I2C-bus (kHz)
PCA9512BDPEnd of LifeSOT505-1-40~852.7~5.52.7~5.511400
Package Information
Product IDPackage DescriptionOutline VersionReflow/Wave SolderingPackingProduct StatusPart NumberOrdering code(12NC)MarkingChemical ContentRoHS / Pb Free / RHFLeadFree Conversion DateMSLMSL LF
PCA9512BDPSOT505-1Reflow_Soldering_ProfileReel 13" Q1/T1DiscontinuedPCA9512BDP,118 (9352 940 05118)9512BPCA9512BDPAlways Pb-free11
Level shifting hot swappable I2C-bus and SMBus bus buffer pca9512bdp
NXP® I2C-bus solutions 2014: Smart, simple solutions for the 12 most common design concerns pca9685pw
I2C-bus specification and user manual pca9685pw
I2C Demonstration Board 2005-1 Quick Start Guide pca9685pw
plastic thin shrink small outline package; 8 leads; body width 3 mm PCT2075
Footprint for reflow soldering SOT505-1 PCT2075
TSSOP8; Reel pack; SMD, 13" Q1/T1 Standard product orientation Orderable part number ending ,118 or... pesd5v0l7bas
Reflow_Soldering_Profile Wave_Soldering_Profile LPC1112FD20
PCA9512BDP IBIS model PCA9512BDP