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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
May. 01, 2006
Amrita Deshpande, Chandler, AZ (US);
Alma Anderson, Chandler, AZ (US);
Jean-marc Irazabal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen Blozis, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Paul Boogaards, Cary, NC (US);
Amrita Deshpande, Chandler, AZ (US);
Alma Anderson, Chandler, AZ (US);
Jean-Marc Irazabal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen Blozis, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Paul Boogaards, Cary, NC (US);
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate programmable updating of slave device output banks sequentially or simultaneously. The communications system includes two or more slave devices and/or a slave device having two or more banks of output drivers. Each slave device receives serial data and provides a data word assembled from the serial data. A programmable register in each slave device is programmed, using the communications protocol, to select one or more slave device configurations. Each of the two or more slave devices and/or two or more banks of output drivers updates either sequentially, or in coordination with other of the two or more slave devices and/or two or more banks of output drivers, based on each slave devices configuration selected by its programmable register.