NAME

i2ctinyusb — driver for a USB / I2C bridge device

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

i2ctinyusb_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The i2ctinyusb driver provides support for the device designed by Till Harbaum known as i2c-tiny-usb. This is initially a very simple circuit built with an Atmel AVR ATtiny45, but a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) implementation also exists.

The i2ctinyusb driver creates a iicbus(4) child bus to expose the iic functions, enabling I2C sensors, converters and displays to be connected to any computer with a USB port.

More information about this device can be found at:

https://github.com/harbaum/I2C-Tiny-USB

and (for the Raspberry Pi Pico version):

https://github.com/Nicolai-Electronics/rp2040-i2c-interface

The I2C controller supports read and write transactions with up to 1024 bytes of data, and a write followed by the repeated start followed by a read transactions up to 1024 bytes. Zero length transfers are not supported.

SEE ALSO

iicbus(4), usb(4)

HISTORY

The i2ctinyusb driver and this manual page was written by Denis Bodor <dbodor@rollmops.ninja>.