Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described that facilitate data communication across a serial bus. In one configuration, a transmitter configures a plurality of devices by assigning one or more trigger registers to each device of the plurality of devices and sends to each device a trigger register assignment command indicating a trigger register assigned to a device and identifying a trigger corresponding to the device. The transmitter then addresses a packet to an assigned trigger register and generates a bit-index field in the packet. Bits in the bit-index field respectively represent triggers corresponding to devices associated with the assigned trigger register, wherein each bit indicates whether one or more corresponding devices are enabled for operation. The transmitter then sends the packet to the plurality of devices via the serial bus.