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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1999
Marc Duranton, Boissy Saint Leger, FR;
Loic Geslin, Paris, FR;
Valerie Vier, Vincennes, FR;
Bernard Bru, Limeil Brevannes, FR;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is described for addressing units (FU FU FU ) amongst a plurality of units having different addresses (ADD ADD ADD ) by use of an address word (AW), the addresses and the address word being composed of address elements. A tag word (TW) is transmitted to the plurality of units, the tag word defining which address elements of the address word are significant (S) and which address elements of the address word are non significant (X). The address word and the addresses of the units are compared and, a unit is addressed if the significant elements of the address word match the corresponding elements of the unit's address.