MC68HC908GR16 Datasheet, PDF (200/276 Pages) Motorola, Inc – Microcontrollers

Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Module
The clock phase (CPHA) control bit selects one of two fundamentally different transmission formats. The
clock phase and polarity should be identical for the master SPI device and the communicating slave
device. In some cases, the phase and polarity are changed between transmissions to allow a master
device to communicate with peripheral slaves having different requirements.
NOTE
Before writing to the CPOL bit or the CPHA bit, disable the SPI by clearing
the SPI enable bit (SPE).
16.5.2 Transmission Format When CPHA = 0
Figure 16-5 shows an SPI transmission in which CPHA is 0. The figure should not be used as a
replacement for data sheet parametric information.
Two waveforms are shown for SPSCK: one for CPOL = 0 and another for CPOL = 1. The diagram may
be interpreted as a master or slave timing diagram since the serial clock (SPSCK), master in/slave out
(MISO), and master out/slave in (MOSI) pins are directly connected between the master and the slave.
The MISO signal is the output from the slave, and the MOSI signal is the output from the master. The SS
line is the slave select input to the slave. The slave SPI drives its MISO output only when its slave select
input (SS) is at 0, so that only the selected slave drives to the master. The SS pin of the master is not
shown but is assumed to be inactive. The SS pin of the master must be high or must be reconfigured as
general-purpose I/O not affecting the SPI. (See 16.7.2 Mode Fault Error.) When CPHA = 0, the first
SPSCK edge is the MSB capture strobe. Therefore, the slave must begin driving its data before the first
SPSCK edge, and a falling edge on the SS pin is used to start the slave data transmission. The slave’s
SS pin must be toggled back to high and then low again between each byte transmitted as shown in
Figure 16-6.
When CPHA = 0 for a slave, the falling edge of SS indicates the beginning of the transmission. This
causes the SPI to leave its idle state and begin driving the MISO pin with the MSB of its data. Once the
transmission begins, no new data is allowed into the shift register from the transmit data register.
Therefore, the SPI data register of the slave must be loaded with transmit data before the falling edge of
SS. Any data written after the falling edge is stored in the transmit data register and transferred to the shift
register after the current transmission.
SPSCK CYCLE #
FOR REFERENCE
SPSCK; CPOL = 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
SPSCK; CPOL =1
MOSI
FROM MASTER
MISO
FROM SLAVE
MSB BIT 6 BIT 5 BIT 4 BIT 3 BIT 2 BIT 1 LSB
MSB
BIT 6 BIT 5 BIT 4 BIT 3 BIT 2 BIT 1 LSB
SS; TO SLAVE
CAPTURE STROBE
Figure 16-5. Transmission Format (CPHA = 0)
MC68HC908GR16 Data Sheet, Rev. 5.0
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Freescale Semiconductor