User:Topherfox12/FoxBus

FoxBus The FoxBus serial single wire communications protocol was developed in 2001 by Christopher Fox as an improvement on an existing bus protocol known and marketed as One Wire (a trademark of Dallas Semiconductor Corporation). The One Wire protocol was originally intended for connecing small memory devices to microcontroller port pins and then grew by customer demand into a larger, single-wire network scheme. However, the fundamental protocol has problems with electrical noise, un-terminated long wires and degradation of the signals. Slave powering issues also limited long-line performance, and the D-C nature of the waveforms precluded using A-C coupling and isolation methods and repeaters. After a great deal of study into the drawbacks of the One Wire protocol in some applications, an alternate protocol with similar speed was developed that could perform better.

Engineers who assisted in validation of the new protocol and contributed to it dubbed it 'FoxBus' and later it became referred to simple as 'FxB'.