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FT4222 I2C and detecting a stuck I2C bus (clock stretching), I2C bus reset

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allenhuffman:
We use Windows and the FT4222 driver to talk to a variety of boards over I2C. Over the years, we have seen many issues with I2C bus locks and have tried to mitigate them in software/firmware.

I thought I'd ask here if folks had any elegant solutions for detecting an I2C bus lock and attempting recovery.

The last release of the library (1.4.4) added FT4222_I2CMaster_ResetBus(); and finally allowed sending the 9 clock pulses to try to unstick a stuck I2C slave device. Before this function was added, we tried doing it manually but found you could not access the GPIO pins when in I2C mode.

I believe we may have been able to just uninitialized from I2C and initialize in GPIO mode to do this:


--- Code: ---FT_HANDLE ftHandle = NULL;

ftStatus = FT_OpenEx ("PrecisePower B", FT_OPEN_BY_DESCRIPTION,
                      &ftHandle);

if (ftStatus == FT_OK)
{
     GPIO_Dir gpioDir[4] = { GPIO_OUTPUT, GPIO_OUTPUT, GPIO_OUTPUT, GPIO_OUTPUT };
     
     ft4222Status = FT4222_GPIO_Init(ftHandle, gpioDir);

     //disable suspend out , enable gpio 2
     ft4222Status = FT4222_SetSuspendOut(ftdiInfoPtr->ftHandle, false);
     
     //disable interrupt , enable gpio 3
     ft4222Status = FT4222_SetWakeUpInterrupt(ftdiInfoPtr->ftHandle, false);
     
     // set gpio0/gpio1/gpio2/gpio3 output level high
     for (int pulse=0; pulse<9; pulse++)
     {
        ft4222Status = FT4222_GPIO_Write(ftHandle, GPIO_PORT0, 1); // Clock pin
        ft4222Status = FT4222_GPIO_Write(ftHandle, GPIO_PORT0, 0); // Clock pin
     }
     Sleep (1);
     
     FT4222_UnInitialize(ftHandle);

    // Re-init as I2C and use it...           
}
FT_Close (ftHandle);
--- End code ---

(Untested; not sure the timing from within Windows toggling that pin on/off would do the trick.)

I wondered if anyone had any clever ways of detecting an I2C stuck bus condition (like when a slave device is using clock stretching, and the master doesn't do a read).

I'll do another post about our experiments with ACK/NACK.

Cheers.

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