INTERFACE DEVICE

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
AUTO TAP	B&B Electronics Manufacturing Company	707 Dayton Road Ottawa IL	Interface device, namely, a microprocessor which connects a computer and a port located on an automobile and converts the programming language of an automobile's computer circuits into a PC-compatible format for the purpose of systems analysis;AUTO;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

Techniques are disclosed for flexible allocation of address pins of an interface bus to particular sub-buses of the interface bus. The interface bus is between at least one physical layer device and a link layer device in a communication system. Each of the sub-buses has an interface block of the link layer device associated therewith, the interface bus being configurable to carry a composite address signal having a plurality of portions each associated with one of the address pins of the interface bus. The interface blocks of the link layer device are controlled such that each of at least a subset of the interface blocks utilizes only particular ones of the address pins that are controllably allocated to the associated sub-bus in accordance with configuration information stored in the link layer device. The composite address signal is generated as a combination of address outputs of the interface blocks.