How can I find out which PDO has been negotiated

[s_]

From the point of view of firmware in microcontroller, which is communicating with STUSB4500 by I2C, how can it find out what PDO (voltage and current) has been negotiated with the power source.

I am particularly interested in maximum current so the microcontroller can ensure it doesn't exceed this.

[Gregory Go.]

Hi,

With STUSB4500, To get the PDOs available on the Source side, you can use the GetSrcCap() function.

Get Source Capabilities :

https://github.com/usb-c/STUSB4500/blob/master/Firmware/Project/Src/USB_PD_core.c#L1124

The PDO that has been negociated between the USB-C Sink and Source is called RDO = Request Data Object

To get the RDO, you can use the Print_RDO() function:

https://github.com/usb-c/STUSB4500/blob/master/Firmware/Project/Src/USB_PD_core.c#L541

Regards

[s_]

Thanks for your reply Gregory.

The value in RDO is sometimes correct, but sometimes it reports 22.5V when I have requested 20V (and VBUS is at 20V):

    STUSB regs:
        00:                              0x12 0x00 
        08:0x11 0x20 0x00 0x01 0xF9 0x00 0x41 0x00 
        10:0x0A 0x13 0x00 0x40 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x2C 
        18:0x00 0x00 0x26 0x21 0x01 0x80 0x00 0x00 
        20:0x10 0xC8 0x5F 0x00 0x00 0x9C 0x00 0x02 
        28:0x02 0x18 0x00 0xE1 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x21 
        30:0x00 0x66 0x07 0x7D 0x4B 0x1A 0xEC 0xC0 
        38:0xA1 0x05 0x00 0xC2 0x41 0x06 0x00 0x25 
        40:0xBE 0xA1 0x80 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        48:0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0xE3 0x00 
        50:0x00 0x0D 0x00 0x00 0x4B 0x2C 0x21 0x43 
        58:0x00 0x48 0xFB 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        60:0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        68:0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        70:0x43 0xC8 0x90 0x01 0x08 0x64 0xD0 0x02 
        78:0x00 0x2C 0xB1 0x04 0x00 0xF4 0xB1 0x04 
        80:0x00 0x5E 0xFD 0x01 0x00 0x96 0x90 0x01 
        88:0x10 0xC8 0xB0 0x04 0x00 0xC2 0x41 0x06 
        90:0x00 0xC2 0x09 0x07 0x30 
    DPM_SNK_PDO1(Pdo 10019096 fix mV=5000 mA=1500) 
    DPM_SNK_PDO2(Pdo 0004B0C8 fix mV=15000 mA=2000) 
    DPM_SNK_PDO3(Pdo 000641C2 fix mV=20000 mA=4500) 
    DPM_REQ_RDO (Pdo 300709C2 fix mV=22500 mA=4500) 

[Gregory Go.]

Be careful that the Source Capabilities PDOs are available in STUSB4500 registers only for a short time (few ms) , until the next USB PD message from the Source overwrites the buffer with new data.

So if you read an incorrect value like 22.5V, it means you have missed the right USB-PD message. Thus you should try again.

[s_]

Thanks Gregory.

Yes, I found that reading the message header and data (from address 0x31 ...) needs to be done quickly (before the next message overwrites it).

But I am seeing strange values at DPM_REQ_RDO (address 0x91 ...0x94) (see register dump above).

Is there any reason why the data address would not be valid ?