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The Master Synchronous Serial Port (MSSP) is an integrated serial communications module that contains two sub-modules: the SPI and the I²C. The I²C can be configured to operate as a bus master, a bus slave or both, in Multi-Master mode. This technical brief highlights the use of the MSSP in I²C Master mode and includes basic I²C Specification information, terminology, set-up information and a software example.