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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
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 identification of inter-integrated circuit slave devices using device identification coding. The communications system includes a slave device having a device identification code identifying one or more parameters. Communications circuitry in the slave device is configured to communicate with a master device on the I2C serial data transfer bus using the communications protocol. In response to a transmission of a device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit an ACKNOWLEDGE, and in response to a transmission of a slave device address and the device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit the device identification code from the slave device to the master.