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mega8 has serial port, why not use RS485 communication
bus. Single Master, multiple slaves (32 directly
supported, 128 possible with better driver ic's),
minimal IO requirements (TX,RX,direction pin). One
question however, are you doing onboard comm.?

Murat Karadeniz



--- ckbanner <kcbanner@inbox.lv> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am doing a project where I need multiple mega8
> avrs sending sensor
> data to another controller.  The other controller is
> an OOPic-R.  The
> OOPic has built in functions for SPI, i2c(twi), and
> serial
> communications.  What is best for a multiple slave,
> single master
> system?  I can make code for the OOPic, but need
> some slave code for
> the avrs.  I am using Codevision and the help file
> doesn't have that
> much information about how to use i2c or SPI in
> slave mode.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kc
> 
> 


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