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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Anders Andersson, Pasadena, CA (US);
Daniel Van Berkom, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a system for assigning unique addresses to multiple devices attached to an I C bus. When multiple devices share the same I C address, the master device is unable to communicate with each device individually. Therefore, a circuit enable input is created to individually activate each device. Once a device is activated, the master device may communicate to the device a unique I C bus address, after which the activated device only responds to the new address. Each device initially sharing the same address is activated individually until all devices have been assigned a unique address.