On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 21:47 +0200, Dario Greggio wrote:
> 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 :)

No, all you're doing is selecting which of the "addresses approved for
that device" you want to use.

If you are creating a slave device (i.e. software I2C) then I have no
idea what you are supposed to do.

TTYL

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