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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2003
Michael Anton Barenys, Austin, TX (US);
Stephan Otis Broyles, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Allan Faust, Austin, TX (US);
Joel Gerard Goodwin, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Anton Barenys, Austin, TX (US);
Stephan Otis Broyles, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Allan Faust, Austin, TX (US);
Joel Gerard Goodwin, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An IC device is disclosed that includes a main IC section, bus switches, switch logic, and address logic as part of the IC device. The IC device is coupled to an IC bus for communicating with other IC devices and an IC bus controller that is also on the IC bus. The switch logic controls a current position of the switches. The IC device is coupled to the IC bus utilizing the switches. The switches control whether the main IC section, the address logic, the switch logic, or a combination of the main IC section, address logic, and switch logic is currently coupled to IC bus. The switches also can be used, if desired to remove from the buss all devices that are downstream from a given device containing switches. The address logic is used to receive and store the address of the IC device. The IC device will respond to the address that is stored in its address logic.