“BRIDGES”. These are devices specially designed to fill the need of a system to add peripheral bus interfaces. These are smart bus translators or protocol converters. They are devices that convert serial protocols from one type to another. The NXP Bridges support protocols like UART, I²C, and SPI. These devices have simple host interfaces, small packages, and have simple software requirements. You can quickly develop application software to control these devices in a few hours or in a few days, instead of weeks and months, and sample code are available from NXP to help to reduce the software development time.