Unit PCF857X
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Description
NXP PCF857X I/O expander Driver
The NXP PCF8574 is an 8 bit I/O expander that provides GPIO pin control functions over an I2C connection.
The device can be represented in Ultibo as a standard GPIO device which is accessible via the GPIO unit functions. Because the PCF857X is a chip that can be used and configured in multiple different scenarios this unit does not autocreate a GPIO device, instead you need to call the function PCF8574GPIOCreate and pass an I2C device and address. The function will create and return a GPIO device with the appropriate number of pins and other information for the specified chip, the returned devices will have been registered with the GPIO device unit and started ready for use.
Note: This unit does not currently implement the interrupt capabilities of the PCF857X chips however it could be expanded to allow the interrupt pin to be connected to a GPIO pin on the SoC and use a trigger event from that to enable GPIOInputWait/GPIOInputEvent functions for the PCF857X chips.
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