Lee Marshall wrote:

> what exactly is "obtaining a slave address". i thought the slave devices had
> leads which you could pull to vdd or vss which defined the address of the
> device.
> also, what is "implementing". if i did want to communicate with a device
> which used a serial protocol that needed licensing fees, would i need to pay
> a licensing fee if i used a uart?

Well, this deals with "implementing": i.e. it's you who are placing 
there Jumpers or Leads to choose address :)
It is also you who create the device, write its software or design its 
hardware. I used to know that a license was somewhat needed for that: I 
barely took a SW implementation of Slave I2C device and prototyped it, 
so I did not care about licensing. Anyway, the one from Wiki is good news.


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