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| Application note #74 explains in great detail the hardware and mechanical interface to 1-wire devices. Dallas’ Battery
 Instrumentation IC’s use a sub-set of the microLAN standard,
 which means, that they use the same communication protocol
 (transport layer), but differ with microLAN features, such as
 addressability (network layer), overdrive, and
 programmability. Due to the nature of a limited battery pack
 supply voltage, non-volatile data is stored by using internal
 charge pumps - rather than applying external 12V pulses.
 Figure 1 display a typical hardware interface, which is used in
 our DS3701 Com-Port adapter:
 Figure 1:
 
   
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