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Christopher D. Eckhoff0
David C. Andreas0
Richard D. Loveman0
Date of Patent
August 9, 2005
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099777950
Date Filed
October 15, 2001
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Methods and apparatus associated with a plurality of serial devices designed to communicate with a bus master in either a daisy chain or a normal configuration are provided. One method includes the step of serially providing a command sequence having a channel identifier to a given device of a plurality of daisy chained devices. The channel identifier is modified as it passes thru each daisy chained device. A specific device is identified or enabled when the channel identifier it receives matches a pre-determined value.
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