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[CAI_Support]

Maxim has exclusive 1-wire slave device to themselves. They never licensed that to anyone.
They made a lot of great sensors on the 1-wire bus.  However, when demand is not high enough, they discontinue that part.
 
There is a Russian guy developed an emulated DS2450 chip, and I heard that was working fine.  But you will need to buy a programmer and know something about that chip he used to make this emulated DS2450.
 
I2C is pretty easy to use, since that is an open standard, a lot of sensors working on that with lower cost.  In addition, it is very flexible without asking us to modify firmware to get a new sensors working.
 
DS2438 chip has ADC in it, and it is 1-wire based, that chip has battery monitor functions in it.  We still have DS2438 chip support in 3.02.18b firmware.  When using DS2438 chip, its voltage reading will use AIP5-8 slots.

 

[Tschmidt]

I had no idea the 1wire was based on one manufacturer that seems like they want it gone away.

A little background. 1-wire was developed by Dallas semiconductor now part of Maxim. It is pretty popular so I would not be overly concerned about it going away.
 
Said by CAI_Support: "I2C is pretty easy to use, since that is an open standard"
I agree I2C is easy to use but did not realize Phillips made it an open standard. Back in the dark old days prior to USB was involved in an effort to use I2C as a PC perpherical bus called Access.Bus. We had a heck of a time with Phillps licensing.
 
/tom

 

[CAI_Support]

Tom,
 
You must be an old timer  Like you said I2C was originally developed by Philips, and requiring license fee for any implementation. But that license expired in 2006, any implementation is free since then.  That made I2C based sensors so cheap.  Intel SMbus is a subset of I2C, so that any SMBus sensor will work with I2C support, too.