This application discloses a
bidirectional communication system and method for board
daisy chain based on a single-
wire protocol, relating to the field of
computer technology. This application constructs a single-bit serial protocol
daisy chain system without an
independent clock line, employing dual single-wire directed links or a single half-duplex shared link to achieve
bidirectional transmission between boards. This significantly reduces the hardware connection harness and input / output resource usage, lowers connector and line costs, and is suitable for scenarios involving large-scale, low-cost board cascading. After power-on, master-slave identification is automatically completed based on the upstream valid frame reception status, avoiding conflicts between multiple master nodes without the need for preset DIP switches, configuration files, or external addressing commands. The
motherboard uses a preset default address, and the slave boards use an
allocation method where the upstream address is incremented hop by hop, ensuring a strict correspondence between physical cascading positions and logical addresses. This achieves automatic convergence with zero manual address configuration, improving
system deployment and maintenance efficiency.