The SC18IM700 is designed to serve as an interface between the standard UART port of a microcontroller or microprocessor and the serial I²C-bus; this allows the microcontroller or microprocessor to communicate directly with other I²C-bus devices. The SC18IM700 can operate as an I²C-bus master. The SC18IM700 controls all the I²C-bus specific sequences, protocol, arbitration and timing. The host communicates with SC18IM700 with ASCII messages protocol; this makes the control sequences from the host to the SC18IM700 become very simple.
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## Features
* UART host interface
* I²C-bus controller
* Eight programmable I/O pins
* High-speed UART: baud rate up to 460.8 kbit/s
* High-speed I²C-bus: 400 kbit/s
* 16-byte TX FIFO
* 16-byte RX FIFO
* Programmable baud rate generator
* 2.3 V and 3.6 V operation
* Sleep mode (power-down)
* UART message format resembles I²C-bus transaction format
* I²C-bus master functions
* Multi-master capability
* 5 V tolerance on the input pins
* 8 N 1 UART format (8 data bits, no parity bit, 1 stop bit)
