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(...) [snip hot pluggable] (...) That is only a partial bus scan. It does not tell you what is at each address. A full bus scan allows people to plug arbitrary devices into the bus and allows the bus master to to reliably figure out what has been (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have read this dicsussion, and have been most interested. From what I can understand (I have no current desire to read the I2C spec) the random ID number will identify that device on the bus once it is detected (or the permenant number, (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I thought Philips kept a master registry of all the hardwired I2C addresses allocated to each chip vendor? That should mean that just reading the hardwired address is enough to tell you what *kind* of device you've found. ---...--- Steve Baker (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There are only 1024 maximum addresses. There are more than 1024 I2C chips out there. Ergo, there are address conflicts between some of the chips out there. Unfortunately, there is no requirement that 2 chips at the same address implement the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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There's been a lot of messages on how to determine unique addressing for intelligent peripherals. Model railroading has solved this problem in a fairly easy way. THe NMRA (National Model Railroading Association) defined the DCC (Digital Command (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Andy: I can understand not wanting to read the I2C spec., I haven't done it in a while myself. However, you are going to have to do a little homework on I2C. There is no real way around it, the bus is sufficiently complex that one's intuition (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) [snip DCC references] (...) That might be workable. I2C does not really have a broadcast message (General Call is close, but not quite). However, just scanning the I2C bus for 1024 addresses to find what the current address of the module is (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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