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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multimaster/two-wire serial bus. SOLUTION: In an embodiment of this invention (200), a host two-wire serial bus (210) which has a first master apparatus (202) and one or more slave apparatuses (204 and 208) is connected to one or more chained two-wire serial buses (220) through one or more of the slave apparatuses (208). The slave apparatus (208) has a digital state machine (306) including a two-wire serial slave component (312) connected with a master apparatus (302) and a two-wire serial master component (316) connected with a slave apparatus (310) on a chained two-wire serial bus (308). The digital state machine (306) emulates the slave apparatus (208) on the host tow-wire serial bus (210) and the master apparatus (208) on the chained two-wire serial bus (220). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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