At 09:25 PM 5/22/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>I can figure out how electrically wire up I2C devices easily, but the 
>thing that I don't wholly understand, is the addressing of the slave 
>devices.  I mean how do I know what address my certain device uses?  Is 
>there something that i need to program beforehand or what?
>
>Any help/nudges in the proper direction(s) would be most helpful

To quote from the I2C bus specification V2.1:

"The I2C-bus committee coordinates allocation of I2C
addresses".

If you just want to use a given chip you read the data sheet to find out the
relevant address or addresses for that part.

>Best regards,

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