topic connecting 3-wire device to SPI in S12 / MagniV Microcontrollers

connecting 3-wire device to SPI

jarin — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:33:29 GMT

Hi all,
i want to connect 3-wire device (DS1302) to SPI bus, I have already connected serial EEPROM (25C640). Problem is, the DS1302 has merged MOSI and MISO pins into one pin. Is there a way to connect it to hw SPI port? I already wrote routines to connect it through bit-banged bus (on JK8, with no HW SPI port), but now i want to connect it to AB32 part with HW SPI port - and consuming additional 3 IO pins to do that (and part of flash memory to save routines) seems to be inefficient.
Thanks for zour help
Jarin

Re: connecting 3-wire device to SPI

Alban — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:21:01 GMT

Hi,

Using Open Collector mode of the SPI, putting the two pins together and a pull-up on the new created bus is a solution.

You will need your master to have 0xFF in its buffer when it should receive data as it will also send data (you shift in and out !!!).

Using the 0xFF data will allow you to avoid data collision on the newly created bus.

Cheers,
Alban.

Re: connecting 3-wire device to SPI

jarin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:40 GMT

Alban, thank you for your time and response.

This should be possible, when only 3-wire device is hooked on SPI port. But my aim to connect both 3-wire device and "normal" SPI device to one SPI port, if possible.

I'll do some experiments on next weekend and report results.

Jarin

Re: connecting 3-wire device to SPI

bigmac — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:44:00 GMT

Hello Jarin,

To avoid external signal routing issues, the simplest approach may be to use the SPI hardware for the 4-wire slave device, and your bit-banged routines for the 3-wire slave device. The same pin furnctionality would be allocated to the software interface as the hardware interface, but using the alternate GPIO. Of course, each slave device will need a separate SS connection, requiring a total of five pins for the two devices.

Regards,
Mac