Systems, methods, and apparatus for one wire communication are disclosed. An apparatus has a line driver adapted to power one or more slave devices coupled to a one-wire serial bus, a circuit for encoding and decoding data in signals transmitted over the serial bus, and a controller. The line driver may maintain the wire at or above a voltage base level during transactions conducted over the wire. A data-encoded signal provided by the coding circuit may be transmitted on the wire in a first transaction and a data-encoded signal received from the wire may be decoded during a second transaction. The line driver may power the one or more slave devices when it maintains the wire at or above the first voltage level. The first signal and the second signal transitions within a voltage range defined by the first voltage level and a second voltage level.