Arduino - Serial Peripheral Interface
Arduino - Serial Peripheral Interface
A Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus is a system for serial communication, which uses up to
four conductors, commonly three. One conductor is used for data receiving, one for data
sending, one for synchronization and one alternatively for selecting a device to communicate
with. It is a full duplex connection, which means that the data is sent and received
simultaneously. The maximum baud rate is higher than that in the I2C communication system.
MISO − This is the master input / slave output driven by the master.
SS − This is the slave-selection wire.
The following functions are used. You have to include the SPI.h.
SPI.begin() − Initializes the SPI bus by setting SCK, MOSI, and SS to outputs, pulling
SCK and MOSI low, and SS high.
SPI.setClockDivider(divider) − To set the SPI clock divider relative to the system
clock. On AVR based boards, the dividers available are 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128. The
default setting is SPI_CLOCK_DIV4, which sets the SPI clock to one-quarter of the
frequency of the system clock (5 Mhz for the boards at 20 MHz).
Divider − It could be (SPI_CLOCK_DIV2, SPI_CLOCK_DIV4, SPI_CLOCK_DIV8,
SPI_CLOCK_DIV16, SPI_CLOCK_DIV32, SPI_CLOCK_DIV64, SPI_CLOCK_DIV128).
SPI.transfer(val) − SPI transfer is based on a simultaneous send and receive: the
received data is returned in receivedVal.
SPI.beginTransaction(SPISettings(speedMaximum, dataOrder, dataMode)) −
speedMaximum is the clock, dataOrder(MSBFIRST or LSBFIRST),
dataMode(SPI_MODE0, SPI_MODE1, SPI_MODE2, or SPI_MODE3).
We have four modes of operation in SPI as follows −
Mode 0 (the default) − Clock is normally low (CPOL = 0), and the data is sampled on
the transition from low to high (leading edge) (CPHA = 0).
Mode 1 − Clock is normally low (CPOL = 0), and the data is sampled on the transition
from high to low (trailing edge) (CPHA = 1).
Mode 2 − Clock is normally high (CPOL = 1), and the data is sampled on the transition
from high to low (leading edge) (CPHA = 0).
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Mode 3 − Clock is normally high (CPOL = 1), and the data is sampled on the transition
from low to high (trailing edge) (CPHA = 1).
SPI.attachInterrupt(handler) − Function to be called when a slave device receives
data from the master.
Now, we will connect two Arduino UNO boards together; one as a master and the other as a
slave.
(SS) : pin 10
(MOSI) : pin 11
(MISO) : pin 12
(SCK) : pin 13
The ground is common. Following is the diagrammatic representation of the connection
between both the boards −
SPI as MASTER
Example
#include <SPI.h>
SPI as SLAVE
Example
#include <SPI.h>
char buff [50];
volatile byte indx;
volatile boolean process;
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