Re: [offtopic] Re: I2c was: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own Mo

Daniel Engstrom (danne@lillfab.se)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:32:45 +0200 (CEST)


On 8 Sep, David Lang wrote:

> it arbitrates the but by listening to the bus as it transmits, if it hears
> something different then it is transmitting it stops transmitting and the
> other station continues (the first thing it transmits is it's own id # and
> the node with more 1 bits in it's address will win as it will transmit a 1
> while the other node transmits a 0, the 1 will make it on the bus and the
> other node will stop)

That would be a CAN bus arbitration....
Or maybe I2C uses the same method...

/Daniel

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