I'm attempting to repair a high end server motherboard with a bad CPU core voltage regulator control IC. It's an IR35201:
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/power/dc-dc-converter/digital-dc-dc-multiphase-controller/ir35201mtrpbf/#The part is easily available, the problem is that it has to be programmed with numerous settings and options before it will work. The motherboard is a dual socket board, so there's a second, IR35201 that I can copy.
I've installed PowIRCenter and purchased a USB to I2C interface. PowIRCenter can access several other regulators on the bus, but not the IR35201. After contacting technical support, they have confirmed that the free version of PowIRCenter doesn't support the IR35201, and that they only support the full version with "a few customers according to business volume requirements". Since I'm not going to be buying millions worth of these, they aren't interested in helping.
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/promopages/power-center-software/All I really need to do is read the settings from the good IC and program them into my new one. I don't need any of the design tools provided by PowIRCenter. I don't even need it to correctly interpret the data from the MTP. I'm looking for advice on how I can do this.
Maybe I can trick PowIRCenter into thinking the IR35201 is one of its supported ICs just so I can blindly read and write the contents of the MTP?
Maybe it's possible to figure out the I2C commands needed to read and write the MTP manually?