Patent ID: 7099983
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data communications system comprising: a first data communications bus, a plurality of first slave devices coupled to the first data communications bus and a plurality of first master devices coupled to the first data communications bus to initiate data communications in a first format between each respective first master device and a selected first slave device, each first master device having a respective first master device address in the first format; a second data communications bus, a plurality of second slave devices coupled to the second data communications bus and a plurality of second master devices coupled to the second data communications bus to initiate data communications in a second format between each respective second master device and a selected second slave device, each second master device having a respective second master device address in the second format, the first and second formats being incompatible; and a communications module coupled as a slave device to each of the first and second data communications buses, the communications module comprising: