ADDRESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND CONVERTER

摘要

The device (1) has a switching logic shifting the device from standard to extended addressing modes. The device implements a slave (3) e.g. asynchronous (AS)-interface slave and field bus slave, with a standard address operation in the standard mode. The device implements a set of slaves with an address operation, which is different from the standard address operation, in the extended mode, where different data types are exchanged between a master and the slaves over data exchange mechanisms. The master assigns addresses to the slaves in the standard mode. An independent claim is also included for a method for addressing a device which is provided as bus nodes.