Patent ID: 9710410
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A device, comprising: a control data bus; a master device coupled to the control data bus and configured to control access to the control data bus; a first slave device having a control data bus interface that is assigned a first slave device identifier and a second slave device identifier, wherein the first slave device is adapted to respond to communications transmitted over the control data bus and addressed to the assigned first slave device identifier or the assigned second slave device identifier; and a second slave device having a control data bus interface that is assigned the first slave device identifier and a third slave device identifier, wherein the second slave device is adapted to respond to communications transmitted over the control data bus and addressed to the assigned first slave device identifier or the assigned third slave device identifier, wherein each of the first slave device and the second slave device is adapted to respond to communications transmitted over the control data bus and addressed to a common address recognized by all slave devices coupled to the control data bus, the common address being different from the first slave device identifier and the second slave device identifier.