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We are using Raspberry Pi 2 single board computers for test automation (they run our feature test against an actual DUT). Our Device Under Test (DUT) uses I2C multi-master mode to communicate with its peripherals. We would like to use the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi 2 to interface with the I2C bus on the DUT, however it must support multi-master communication in order for it to be useful.

Can anyone confirm if the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi supports a multi-master configuration?


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I'm fairly sure the Raspberry Pi does NOT support I2C multi-master mode.

There is no mention of muli-master in the documentation.

The Broadcom Serial Controller (BSC) controller is a master, fast-mode (400Kb/s) BSC controller. The Broadcom Serial Control bus is a proprietary bus compliant with the Philips® I2C bus/interface version 2.1 January 2000.

• I2C single master only operation (supports clock stretching wait states)

• Both 7-bit and 10-bit addressing is supported.

• Timing completely software controllable via registers

Page 28 BCM2835 ARM Peripherals


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  • Thanks for the information. Am I correct that the newer BCM2836 (RPi2) and BCM2837 (RPi3) have not changed in this aspect? – Arno Moonen Apr 21 '16 at 13:56
  • The Broadcom "peripherals" are identical on all current Pi models. So no change for Pi Zero, Pi2B, Pi3B, compute module, etc. – joan Apr 21 '16 at 14:09

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