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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Daniel Milton Alley, Earlysville, VA (US);
Stephen Emerson Douthit, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Daniel Milton Alley, Earlysville, VA (US);
Stephen Emerson Douthit, Charlottesville, VA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
System and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a master device comprising a first serial peripheral interface (SPI) port having only a first four wires. The system further includes a slave device comprising a second SPI port having only a second four wires. The system additionally includes a galvanic isolation barrier communicatively coupling the first four wires to the second four wires. The master device is configured to use the first four wires to transmit a plurality of signals representative of a reset and of a first communications mode. The first communications mode is used to transfer data between the master device and the slave device.