Paper Title
Design and Implementation of I2C Bus Protocol on FPGA using VERILOG for EEPROM

Abstract
The I2C or Inter-Integrated Circuit protocol is a serial communication protocol designed by Philip semiconductors now termed as NXP semiconductors. This paradigm has been proliferating its use in serial communication. I2C is a bidirectional 2-wire bus designed to enhance hardware efficiency and increase simplicity of the circuit. This protocol bolsters multiple masters (which is a limitation with SPI communication) and multiple slaves and also allows communication between faster and slower devices by a serial data bus (SDA) without data loss. The other line is Serial clock line (SCL) which transfers the data according to a synchronized clock which is a limitation for UART communication. Other types of communication protocols like USB, RS-422, RS-485, CAN etc. require more pin connections and signals for communication. The postulates of I2C over UART, SPI, USB and other protocols indicates I2C’s significance in its use as communication protocol. This paper makes use of Verilog language in designing and Implementing I2C bus on FPGA (XC3S100E of SPATAN-3E) which acts as master, for interfacing with EEPROM (24C02) which acts as slave. This design makes use of Xilinx 14.2 version for design and Implementation. Keywords - Verilog, I2C, SDA, SCL, FPGA, Master, Slave, HDL.