Dynamic address assignments to serially connected devices

Details Dynamic address assignments to serially connected devices Dynamic address assignments to serially connected devices

1995-02-24

1997-10-21

Holloway, III, Edwin C.

Communications: electrical

Continuously variable indicating

With meter reading

34082552, H04Q 100

Patent

active

056801130

ABSTRACT:
Dynamic address assignment and reconfiguration of serially connected addressable device components of a network system using interchangeable cables terminated by plugs. Successive pairs of the devices are coupled with identical cables having the same offset cross-connected wiring between the terminating plugs, but which establish a unique address for the device to which connected depending on the position of the device in a chain of connected devices without requiring changes to the devices per se, e.g., jumpers or switches. The bus structure requires only a single port per device and removal, failure, or replacement of a device does not affect nor impair the proper operation of the other devices.

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