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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Stephen McRobert, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Alan Williams, Cupertino, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A proxy device such as a microcontroller, coupled to the SMBus, is configured for obtaining, according to the SMBus Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and from an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) master, an SMBus slave address for an SMBus device. The proxy device also is configured for outputting the obtained SMBus slave address for storage by the SMBus device independent of the ARP protocol. Hence, the proxy agent enables SMBus slave addresses to be assigned in SMBus devices that lack the ability to receive an assigned SMBus address according to the SMBus ARP.
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