Bridges

NXP bridge ICs are the new generation of serial interface solutions for managing host-to-device communications among wide variety of serial bus interfaces such as I2C, SPI, and UART. Our bridges allow you to simply connect devices that use a different serial bus than your current system. These products operate at low voltages, consume little power, and come in ultra-small packaging. They are ideal for battery-operated applications. In addition, our bridges improve overall system performance by reducing software overhead while increasing design flexibility.

A host processor may not be able to communicate with devices using multiple I2C, SPI, UART, IrDA, and GPIO interfaces. For many advanced applications, multiple bus ports are required. Without using our bridges, host processing and system complexity can be overwhelming. Our bridges free up processor resources for code and data memory by handling the interfacing directly. Our bridge products are optimized for high speed data throughput.

Our products seamlessly bridge hosts to serial and wireless devices with minimal wire interconnection. Our bridges enable you to overcome limitations of your system's host while adding design flexibility and reducing complexity to implement other bus interfaces.

• All Bridges
• New Bridges

• I2C Slave to SPI Master/GPIO Bridges
• I2C/SPI Slave to UART/IrDA/GPIO Bridges
• SPI Slave to I2C Master/GPIO Bridges
• UART to I2C Master/GPIO Bridges

• Interface Demonstration and Evaluation Boards

• Logic Translators
• Translator Voltage Clamps
• Level Shifters