Signaling Between Master and Slave Components Using a Shared Communication Node of the Master Component
First Claim
1. A network slave device comprising:
- a transceiver for communicating over a communication bus in accordance with a point-to-point network protocol;
an address to identify the network slave device; and
a communication circuit configured to process a series of commands received by the transceiver and respond to a command if a position of the command in the series of commands corresponds to the address of the network slave device.
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Abstract
A network slave device includes a transceiver for communicating over a communication bus in accordance with a point-to-point network protocol. The network slave device may have an address to identify the network slave device on the network. It may also have a communication circuit configured to process a series of commands received by the transceiver and respond to a command if a position of the command in the series of commands corresponds to the address of the network slave device. A master device communicating on the network may send the series of command in accordance with the point-to-point network protocol. In an embodiment, the point-to-point protocol is the SENT protocol.
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50 Claims
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1. A network slave device comprising:
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a transceiver for communicating over a communication bus in accordance with a point-to-point network protocol; an address to identify the network slave device; and a communication circuit configured to process a series of commands received by the transceiver and respond to a command if a position of the command in the series of commands corresponds to the address of the network slave device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
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a master device coupled to a communication bus and configured to communicate over the communication bus in accordance with a point-to-point communication protocol to send a series of commands over the communication bus; and one or more slave devices coupled to the communication bus to communicate over the communication bus in accordance with the point-to-point communication protocol, each of the slave devices having a respective address to identify the respective slave device and configured to respond to a command in the series of commands that has a position within the series that matches the respective address of the respective slave device. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method comprising:
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sending a series of commands by a master device coupled to a one-wire communication bus; and responding to one of the commands, by a selected slave device, if the position of the command in the series of commands matches an address of the selected slave device. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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