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by AnnualDegree99 590 days ago
On the contrary, I think Controller/Peripheral is more precise and descriptive than Master/Slave in the context of Master/Slave protocols.
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There's cases where a peripheral could be a master.

The BLE wireless protocol separates roles into central/peripheral and server/client. Often, but not always, a peripheral is a server.