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Chapter 25 Serial Peripheral Interface (S12SPIV5)
25.4 Functional Description
The SPI module allows a duplex, synchronous, serial communication between the MCU and peripheral
devices. Software can poll the SPI status flags or SPI operation can be interrupt driven.
The SPI system is enabled by setting the SPI enable (SPE) bit in SPI control register 1. While SPE is set,
the four associated SPI port pins are dedicated to the SPI function as:
• Slave select (SS)
• Serial clock (SCK)
• Master out/slave in (MOSI)
• Master in/slave out (MISO)
The main element of the SPI system is the SPI data register. The n-bit¹ data register in the master and the
n-bit¹ data register in the slave are linked by the MOSI and MISO pins to form a distributed 2n-bit¹
register. When a data transfer operation is performed, this 2n-bit¹ register is serially shifted n¹ bit positions
by the S-clock from the master, so data is exchanged between the master and the slave. Data written to the
master SPI data register becomes the output data for the slave, and data read from the master SPI data
register after a transfer operation is the input data from the slave.
A read of SPISR with SPTEF = 1 followed by a write to SPIDR puts data into the transmit data register.
When a transfer is complete and SPIF is cleared, received data is moved into the receive data register. This
data register acts as the SPI receive data register for reads and as the SPI transmit data register for writes.
A common SPI data register address is shared for reading data from the read data buffer and for writing
data to the transmit data register.
The clock phase control bit (CPHA) and a clock polarity control bit (CPOL) in the SPI control register 1
(SPICR1) select one of four possible clock formats to be used by the SPI system. The CPOL bit simply
selects a non-inverted or inverted clock. The CPHA bit is used to accommodate two fundamentally
different protocols by sampling data on odd numbered SCK edges or on even numbered SCK edges (see
Section 25.4.3, “Transmission Formats”).
The SPI can be configured to operate as a master or as a slave. When the MSTR bit in SPI control register1
is set, master mode is selected, when the MSTR bit is clear, slave mode is selected.
NOTE
A change of CPOL or MSTR bit while there is a received byte pending in
the receive shift register will destroy the received byte and must be avoided.
1. n depends on the selected transfer width, please refer to Section 25.3.2.2, “SPI Control Register 2 (SPICR2)
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