{
 "id": "an-i2c-device-past-its-speed-limit-returns",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "An I2C device past its speed limit can return a neighbouring register's contents with a clean acknowledgement and no error flag",
 "symptom": "Above a certain clock rate a device returns wrong values that are entirely plausible. There is no exception, no error flag, the transaction acknowledges normally and the controller's abort register reads zero. An identity register returns a valid-looking byte that simply is not its value.",
 "hw": [
  "apds9960",
  "stemma-qt",
  "feather-rp2040"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "micropython",
  "i2c"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Understand what happens when an I2C bus is run faster than the devices on it can manage",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "superseded",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}