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

Erik Corry (erik@arbat.com)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:25:35 +0200


In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980909124102.224A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Daniel Engstrom wrote:

>> 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...

> The IIC bus has no arbitration capability at all. One checks a busy

Did anyone mention IIC?

-- 
Erik Corry

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