
[AK4705] 
MS0451-E-01 
2007/06 
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6. Control Interface 
I
2
C-bus Control Mode 
1. WRITE Operations 
Figure 10 shows the data transfer sequence in I
2
C-bus mode. All commands are preceded by a START condition. A 
HIGH to LOW transition on the SDA line while SCL is HIGH indicates a START condition (Figure 16). After the 
START condition, a slave address is sent. This address is 7 bits long followed by the eighth bit which is a data direction 
bit (R/W). The most significant seven bits of the slave address are fixed as “0010001”. When the AK4705 receive the 
slave address, the AK4705 generates the acknowledge and the operation is executed. The master must generate the 
acknowledge-related clock pulse and release the SDA line (HIGH) during the acknowledge clock pulse (Figure 17). A 
“1” for R/W bit indicates that the read operation is to be executed. A “0” indicates that the write operation is to be 
executed. The second byte consists of the address for control registers of the AK4705. The format is MSB first, and those 
most significant 3-bits are fixed to zeros (Figure 12). The data after the second byte contain control data. The format is 
MSB first, 8bits (Figure 13). The AK4705 generates an acknowledge after each byte is received. A data transfer is always 
terminated by a STOP condition generated by the master. A LOW to HIGH transition on the SDA line while SCL is 
HIGH defines a STOP condition (Figure 16). 
The AK4705 can execute multiple one byte write operations in a sequence. After receipt of the third byte, the AK4705 
generates an acknowledge, and awaits the next data again. The master can transmit more than one byte instead of 
terminating the write cycle after the first data byte is transferred. After the receipt of each data, the internal address 
counter is incremented by one, and the next data is taken into next address automatically. If the address exceeds 09H prior 
to generating the stop condition, the address counter will “roll over” to 00H and the previous data will be overwritten. 
The data on the SDA line must be stable during the HIGH period of the clock. The HIGH or LOW state of the data line 
can only change when the clock signal on the SCL line is LOW (Figure 18) except for the START and the STOP 
condition. 
S
T
A
R
T
Slave
Address
Address(n)
SDA
A
C
K
A
C
K
S
A
C
K
Sub
Data(n)
P
S
T
O
P
Data(n+x)
A
C
K
Data(n+1)
A
C
K
R/W= “0”
A
C
K
Figure 10. Data transfer sequence at the I
2
C-bus mode 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
1 
R/W 
Figure 11. The first byte 
0 
0 
0 
A4 
A3 
A2 
A1 
A0 
Figure 12. The second byte 
D7 
D6 
D5 
D4 
D3 
D2 
D1 
D0 
Figure 13. Byte structure after the second byte