Patent 10055376 was granted and assigned to Maxim Integrated Products on August, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A serial peripheral interface system with a slave expander method and apparatus can include: receiving a data stream from a master device, the data stream beginning with an address; decoding the address as the data stream is being received; activating an independent slave select after the address is decoded and before a second portion of the data stream is received; and deactivating the independent slave select based on a slave select from the master device being deactivated.