Abstract: The present invention generally pertains to a system and method for terminating a communication bus, such as a communication bus interconnecting multiple integrated circuit (IC) chips. An integrated circuit (IC) chip in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention utilizes a bus termination and logic. The bus termination is coupled to the communication bus. The logic is configured to prevent the bus termination from terminating the communication bus when the IC chip is communicating a particular binary level to another IC chip. The logic is further configured to cause the bus termination to terminate the communication bus when the IC chip is communicating a different binary level to another IC chip.