Rainbow Electronics LM83 - Manual (Page 12)

1.0 Functional Description
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the serial interface logic if either of the SMBData or SMBCLK
lines are held low between 25 ms and 40 ms. TIMEOUT al-
lows a clean recovery in cases where the master may be re-
set while the LM83 is transmitting a low bit thus preventing
possible bus lock up.
Whenever the LM83 sees the start condition its serial inter-
face will reset to the beginning of the communication, thus
the LM83 will expect to see an address byte next. This sim-
plifies recovery when the master is reset while the LM83 is
transmitting a high.
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