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From: "Jinx"


> > However, how does one handle multiple slave devices especially
> > if they are the same device
>
> As others have said, use the chip's address pins. A current project
> of mine has multiple F88 slaves, and I use a similar system so the
> user can configure it. Simply put (although there's more to it), each
> block of 8 x F88s has a base address and each F88 within that
> block has a unique address relative to the base address. Each block's
> base address can be changed with user-configurable jumpers, so that
> you are able to keep adding blocks of 8 x F88s

I simply must know what it is that uses blocks of 8 x F88s.  ;-) Is it
some kind of LED sign control?

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