"Industry's first" fast-mode plus devices.(INNOVATIONS AND INNOVATORS)

Royal Philips Electronics has launched what the company claims is the industry's first [I.sup.2]C Logic devices based on the Fast-mode Plus (Fm+) specification. The [I.sup.2]C Fast-mode Plus specification goes up to a frequency of 1MHz (1MB/s)--more than twice the frequency of previous I[micro]C-bus speed specifications--and is backward compatible with existing Fast-mode and Standard-mode devices. In addition, Fm+ increases the total possible capacitance by a factor of 10, enabling longer distance transmission at slower bus speeds without requiring buffers. This allows engineers to create more flexible system designs at higher speeds when more bandwidth is needed; or use larger buses for emerging applications in LED and architectural lighting and gaming, which require a larger number of components on a single bus. …

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