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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2003
Ranen Chatterjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Ranen Chatterjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided that allows an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) controller (or another micro-controller that is not a dedicated I2C controller) to control various Inter Integrated Circuit (I2C) slave devices having I2C slave drivers without any modification of the I2C slave drivers on the I2C slave devices. The I2C slave devices can be managed without an external and/or a dedicated I2C master controller. In one embodiment, a translation module is provided to an IPMI micro-controller that can represent I2C interface to I2C device drivers. In another embodiment, the translation module can represent an interface for an IPMI controller to I2C device drivers located in one or more I2C devices and/or I2C controllers.