WRITING/READING TO THE TMP100 AND TMP101 Accessing a particular register on the TMP100 and TMP101 is accomplished by writing the appropriate value to the Pointer Register. The value for the Pointer Register is the first byte transferred after the I2C slave address byte with the R/W bit LOW. Every write operation to the TMP100 and TMP101 requires a value for the Pointer Register. (Refer to Figure 6.) When reading from the TMP100 and TMP101, the last value stored in the Pointer Register by a write operation is used to determine which register is read by a read operation. To change the register pointer for a read operation, a new value must be written to the Pointer Register. This is accomplished by issuing an I2C slave address byte with the R/W bit LOW, followed by the Pointer Register Byte. No additional data is required. The master can then generate a START condition and send the I2C slave address byte with the R/W bit HIGH to initiate the read command. See Figure 7 for details of this sequence. If repeated reads from the same register are desired, it is not necessary to continually send the Pointer Register bytes as the TMP100 and TMP101 will remember the Pointer Register value until it is changed by the next write operation.