Communication Protocols — question 6 of 10
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During bring-up, a power glitch happens mid-transaction on an I2C bus. Afterward, the bus is completely stuck: SDA reads low all the time, every subsequent transaction from the master times out or gets a NACK, and this persists even after a full firmware reset. Explain why this happens, and walk through how you would get the bus moving again -- both from the hardware side and the firmware side.