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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
May. 11, 2006
Applicant:
Abdelouahid Zakriti, Rabat, MA;
Inventor:
Abdelouahid Zakriti, Rabat, MA;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics Maroc, Casablanca, MA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An address configuration circuit and a method for sharing a series bus connected to a first device between two secondary devices by a configuration within each secondary device of a different address, including, in a configuration phase, the temporary configuring of an output terminal of each secondary device in a mode of reading of the voltage present on this terminal to select one address out of two within the device.