At 08:33 AM 8/22/2003, Bob Axtell wrote:

>My biggest concern with open collectors is (1) higher overall current drain
>and (2) loss of speed. The original spec called for 100Khz clock speeds.
>MANY I2C devices can operate at 4Mhz now.

IIRC, hi-speed I2C is 400 KHz, not 4 MHz.  Factor of 10 slower makes a huge
difference!

dwayne

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