I2C and SMBus Bus Buffers and Accelerators

I2C bus buffers and accelerators offer capacitive isolation and active pull-ups to eliminate common 2-wire bus problems that occur when many nodes are added to a bus; a bus buffer is commonly used in a high availability (hot swap) environment or when address conflicts occur.  These devices feature level translation capabilities, stuck bus recovery, 6kV ESD protection and up to 400kHz operation.