Olin Lathrop <piclist@mit.edu> wrote:

> I know Phillips owns IIC, but is a license required for SPI?  I don't
> remember any such restriction, but I could easily be wrong about that.

Olin:

There's no license required for SPI.  In fact, there isn't even a 
real spec for it; in the design documents I wrote for Cypress's 
microcontrollers, I was forced by the lack of an official Standard to 
require "SPI as described in Motorola Semiconductor's M68HC11 
Reference Manual".

-Andrew

=== Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com

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