MC68HC08GZ32 Datasheet, PDF (223/320 Pages) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc – Microcontrollers

Queuing Transmission Data
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 16-7. Transmission Format (CPHA = 1)
When CPHA = 1 for a slave, the first edge of the SPSCK 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 first edge of
SPSCK. Any data written after the first edge is stored in the transmit data register and transferred to the
shift register after the current transmission.
16.4.4 Transmission Initiation Latency
When the SPI is configured as a master (SPMSTR = 1), writing to the SPDR starts a transmission. CPHA
has no effect on the delay to the start of the transmission, but it does affect the initial state of the SPSCK
signal. When CPHA = 0, the SPSCK signal remains inactive for the first half of the first SPSCK cycle.
When CPHA = 1, the first SPSCK cycle begins with an edge on the SPSCK line from its inactive to its
active level. The SPI clock rate (selected by SPR1:SPR0) affects the delay from the write to SPDR and
the start of the SPI transmission. (See Figure 16-8.) The internal SPI clock in the master is a free-running
derivative of the bus clock. To conserve power, it is enabled only when both the SPE and SPMSTR bits
are set. Since the SPI clock is free-running, it is uncertain where the write to the SPDR occurs relative to
the slower SPSCK. This uncertainty causes the variation in the initiation delay shown in Figure 16-8. This
delay is no longer than a single SPI bit time. That is, the maximum delay is two MCU bus cycles for DIV2,
eight MCU bus cycles for DIV8, 32 MCU bus cycles for DIV32, and 128 MCU bus cycles for DIV128.
16.5 Queuing Transmission Data
The double-buffered transmit data register allows a data byte to be queued and transmitted. For an SPI
configured as a master, a queued data byte is transmitted immediately after the previous transmission
has completed. The SPI transmitter empty flag (SPTE) indicates when the transmit data buffer is ready
to accept new data. Write to the transmit data register only when SPTE is high. Figure 16-9 shows the
timing associated with doing back-to-back transmissions with the SPI (SPSCK has CPHA: CPOL = 1:0).
The transmit data buffer allows back-to-back transmissions without the slave precisely timing its writes
between transmissions as in a system with a single data buffer. Also, if no new data is written to the data
buffer, the last value contained in the shift register is the next data word to be transmitted.
MC68HC08GZ32 Data Sheet, Rev. 3
Freescale Semiconductor
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