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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2009
Jen-ta Yang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Yung-lung Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Jen-Ta Yang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Yung-Lung Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Novatek Microelectronics Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
Addressing method for multiple chips is provided. Each chip includes an input enable terminal, an output enable terminal, a data input terminal, and a clock terminal. The output enable terminal of a previous stage is connected to the input enable terminal of a next stage. The method includes setting an initial address to an address of each chip via a system; setting a state of each chip to a disable state; enabling the state of a first-one chip among the chips to an enable state, and setting the first chip as a previous-stage chip; updating the address of the previous-stage chip; enabling a next-stage chip connected after the previous-stage chip, in which the system controls the output enable terminal of the previous-stage chip to output an enable signal to enable the next-stage chip, according to the address of the previous-stage chip; and the updating the address of the next-stage chip.