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Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI)
15.3.4
■ Receive FIFO time-out
■ Receive FIFO overrun
■ End of transmission
All of the interrupt events are ORed together before being sent to the interrupt controller, so the SSI
generates a single interrupt request to the controller regardless of the number of active interrupts.
Each of the four individual maskable interrupts can be masked by clearing the appropriate bit in the
SSI Interrupt Mask (SSIIM) register (see page 785). Setting the appropriate mask bit enables the
interrupt.
The individual outputs, along with a combined interrupt output, allow use of either a global interrupt
service routine or modular device drivers to handle interrupts. The transmit and receive dynamic
dataflow interrupts have been separated from the status interrupts so that data can be read or written
in response to the FIFO trigger levels. The status of the individual interrupt sources can be read
from the SSI Raw Interrupt Status (SSIRIS) and SSI Masked Interrupt Status (SSIMIS) registers
(see page 786 and page 788, respectively).
The receive FIFO has a time-out period that is 32 periods at the rate of SSIClk (whether or not
SSIClk is currently active) and is started when the RX FIFO goes from EMPTY to not-EMPTY. If
the RX FIFO is emptied before 32 clocks have passed, the time-out period is reset. As a result, the
ISR should clear the Receive FIFO Time-out Interrupt just after reading out the RX FIFO by writing
a 1 to the RTIC bit in the SSI Interrupt Clear (SSIICR) register. The interrupt should not be cleared
so late that the ISR returns before the interrupt is actually cleared, or the ISR may be re-activated
unnecessarily.
The End-of-Transmission (EOT) interrupt indicates that the data has been transmitted completely.
This interrupt can be used to indicate when it is safe to turn off the SSI module clock or enter sleep
mode. In addition, because transmitted data and received data complete at exactly the same time,
the interrupt can also indicate that read data is ready immediately, without waiting for the receive
FIFO time-out period to complete.
Frame Formats
Each data frame is between 4 and 16 bits long, depending on the size of data programmed, and is
transmitted starting with the MSB. There are three basic frame types that can be selected:
■ Texas Instruments synchronous serial
■ Freescale SPI
■ MICROWIRE
For all three formats, the serial clock (SSIClk) is held inactive while the SSI is idle, and SSIClk
transitions at the programmed frequency only during active transmission or reception of data. The
idle state of SSIClk is utilized to provide a receive timeout indication that occurs when the receive
FIFO still contains data after a timeout period.
For Freescale SPI and MICROWIRE frame formats, the serial frame (SSIFss) pin is active Low,
and is asserted (pulled down) during the entire transmission of the frame.
For Texas Instruments synchronous serial frame format, the SSIFss pin is pulsed for one serial
clock period starting at its rising edge, prior to the transmission of each frame. For this frame format,
both the SSI and the off-chip slave device drive their output data on the rising edge of SSIClk and
latch data from the other device on the falling edge.
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