July 15, 2026

The Dallas 1-wire protocol saga -- DS1994 test and conclusion

I wrote a diagnostic to test each of the 16 pages one by one.

I read (and saved) the original contents. Then I wrote and checked first a pattern of 0x55 bytes and then a pattern of 0xaa bytes. Then I wrote (and checked) the original contents.

This worked fine for all 16 pages. I concluded that this device is fully functional.

Conclusion

I was tempted to wire up my MAX31850 devices and work up a driver for them, but decide that this was enough for now and that I would wrap this up and move on to other things.

The final code is here as part of my Kyu project:


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