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The ASIC reduces complexity and increases efficiency by reducing the number and type of interfaces, design time and system level problems in particular those associated with I2C. For small satellites, it will do so by enabling a single CAN-based system bus where I2C, SPI and UART sub-systems or peripherals are isolated and interfaced using the proposed device.
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