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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2006
Takashi Hidai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Slawomir K. Iinickl, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Martin Curran-gray, Dunfermline, GB;
Takashi Hidai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Slawomir K. Iinickl, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Martin Curran-Gray, Dunfermline, GB;
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure embody a multi-master two-wire serial bus that comprises two or more chained two-wire serial busses. The chained two-wire serial busses include a host two-wire serial bus with a first master device and one or more slave devices. One or more chained two-wire serial busses are coupled to the host bus wherein one or more slave devices on the host two-wire serial bus operate as second master devices, which comprise a digital state machine including a two-wire serial slave component coupled to the master device and a two-wire serial master component coupled to the slave devices on the chained two-wire serial bus. The digital state machine emulates a slave device on the host two-wire serial bus and a master device on the chained two-wire serial bus.