Dallas Semiconductor Corporation

Dallas L Ledlow

James M Douglass

A device and method to regulate an electronic device in response to temperature changes is shown and described. For example, the present invention can control devices that are operable in different operational modes. The method and the device can be used so as to include steps of sensing a temperature; accessing a table using the sensed temperature; reading an operational mode indicator from the table, wherein the operational mode indicator corresponds to the sensed temperature; and operating the device in the proper one of the operational modes that corresponds to the operational mode indicator.

Temperature-controlled variable resistor

An arbitrator for selectively permitting access to a common resource by a priority device and two non-priority devices, includes a priority request reception device for receiving a priority request to access the resource by the priority device; two second request reception devices for receiving non-priority requests to access the resource by the two non-priority devices; a prioritizer coupled to receive indications of times when the priority request reception device receives the priority request and when the two non-priority request reception devices receive the non-priority requests, with the prioritizer permitting access to the resource by the priority device and non-priority device in a predetermined order.

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