>
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980909124102.224A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Daniel Engstrom wrote:
>
> >> On 8 Sep, David Lang wrote:
> >>
> >> > it arbitrates the but by listening to the bus as it transmits, if it hears
> >> > something different then it is transmitting it stops transmitting and the
> >> > other station continues (the first thing it transmits is it's own id # and
> >> > the node with more 1 bits in it's address will win as it will transmit a 1
> >> > while the other node transmits a 0, the 1 will make it on the bus and the
> >> > other node will stop)
> >>
> >> That would be a CAN bus arbitration....
> >> Or maybe I2C uses the same method...
>
> > The IIC bus has no arbitration capability at all. One checks a busy
>
> Did anyone mention IIC?
>
Yes. That's what I2C is. Usually called I-squared-C.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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