CYPD3177(BCR) has provided four sets of resistor divider networks are used to determine the voltage and current range that the EZ-PD BCR device will negotiate
with the USB Type-C power adapter. However, if it still cannot meet your requirement, you can change the PDO through its I2C register.
This blog gives a breif introduction on how to change the BCR register based on BCR HPI Spec.
1. Hardware Connection
Figure 1
Connect SCLK and SDAT of MiniProg to CY4533 as is shown in Figure 1. Set the rotary switch (SW1) to position 1 so CY4533 support 5V/0.9A by default. Use a CY4500 EZ-PD Protocol Analyzer to capture the cc communication between CY4533 and the power adapter.
Figure 2
As is shown in Figure 2, CY4533 request 5V/0.9A due to the max requesting VBUS set by rotary switch is 5V/0.9A.
2. Send I2C command in Bridge Control Panel to control BCR
Figure 3
Check the PD_STATUS register first. The value of PD_STATUS register is 00 A4 05 00. It means the explicit contract has been established between BCR and the charger. BCR is acting as a power sink and the two device both supports PD 3.0. To replace the default sink PDO, write the corresponding packet into the data memory start from 0x1800. For Byte 0-3, ASCII string “SNKP” (i.e 0x50 0x4B 0x4E 0x53) must be sent to make BCR update its sink PDO list. In this example, PDO 0 is set to 5V/0.9A and PDO 1 is set to 15V/1.75A. The remaining bytes are set to 0 because not all 7 PDOs are used. Refer to Section 6.4 of Universal Serial Bus Power Delivery Specification for the description of Fixed Supply PDO. Figure 3 is the I2C commands sent and response from BCR.
Figure 4
After enabling the PDO0 and PDO1 mask by sending command to SELECT_SINK_PDO register, BCR will re-negotiate the PD contract with the power adapter. PD_RESPONSE register should be checked after sending command on command registers. 0x02 is the code for successful operation.CC communication is captured by CY4500 in Figure 4.
