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Product category: Standard Logic Devices
News Release from: Linear Technology Corp | Subject: LTC4308 and LTC4309
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 07 March 2008

Buffers manage bus capacitance

Hot-swappable two-wire bus buffers prevent signal corruption during I/O card insertion into live backplanes and provide capacitive isolation per I2C and SMBus specifications.

Linear Technology has expanded its I2C and SMBus bus buffer and rise time accelerator family with the introduction of the LTC4308 and LTC4309 As the number of plug-in boards continues to increase, additive capacitances begin to critically lengthen rise times

Breaking the bus into several pieces with bus buffers alleviates