As data are received by the slave, they are written bit by bit to a serial/parallel register. After each data byte

has been received by the slave, an acknowledge is generated, the data are then stored in the internal register

addressed by the current index.

During a read message, the contents of the register addressed by the current index is read out in the byte

following the device address byte. The contents of this register are parallel loaded into the serial/parallel register

and clocked out of the device by the falling edge of SCL.

Figure 13. VL53L8CX data format (read)

At the end of each byte, in both read and write message sequences, an acknowledge is issued by the receiving

device (that is, the VL53L8CX for a write and the host for a read).

A message can only be terminated by the bus master, either by issuing a stop condition or by a negative

acknowledge (that is, not pulling the SDA line low) after reading a complete byte during a read operation.

The interface also supports auto-increment indexing. After the first data byte has been transferred, the index is

automatically incremented by 1. The master can therefore send data bytes continuously to the slave until the

slave fails to provide an acknowledge or the master terminates the write communication with a stop condition. If

the auto-increment feature is used the master does not have to send address indexes to accompany the data

bytes.

Figure 14. VL53L8CX data format (sequential write)

Figure 15. VL53L8CX data format (sequential read)

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