The PCA9557PWR is a remote 8-bit I2C and SMBus low-power I/O Expander with reset and configuration registers designed for VCC operation. The device provides general-purpose remote I/O expansion for most microcontroller families via the I2C interface (serial clock (SCL) and serial data (SDA)). The PCA9557 consists of one 8-bit configuration (input or output selection), input port, output port and polarity inversion (active-high) registers. At power on, the I/Os are configured as inputs. However, the system master can enable the I/Os as either inputs or outputs by writing to the I/O configuration bits. The data for each input or output is kept in the corresponding input or output register. The polarity of the input port register can be inverted with the polarity inversion register. All registers can be read by the system master.
1μA Maximum low standby-current consumption
I2C to parallel port expander
Three hardware address pins allow up to eight devices