How to overclock TWI Manager past 400 KHz

[arjun123]

Hi,

We are working with the nRF52840 and an ADC chip that is capable of I2C communication faster than 400 KHz, allowing lower latency. I know that the nRF52840 does not officially support TWI Clock rate faster than 400 KHz, but I have read some forums about people that managed to do this on an nRF52832 at 800 KHz. We tried the same approach with our nRF52840, but weren’t successful. Is there any way to do this with our chip?

Thanks,

Arjun Sonti

[Simonr]

Hi

You can try setting the frequency register to a higher value than it is. Please see the TWI_FREQUENCY_FREQUENCY defines in the nrf52840_bitfields.h header in the SDK (lines 13966-13971). Please note that I haven't tested this, so I don't know the outcome. Please see this thread for more info on the baud rate generator. All peripherals use the same one, so don't mind it saying UART.

Best regards,

Simon