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SPI Controller
2013.12.30
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The hard processor system (HPS) provides two serial peripheral interface (SPI) masters and two SPI slaves.
The SPI masters and slaves are instances of the Synopsys
®
DesignWare
®
Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI)
controller (DW_apb_ssi).
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Features of the SPI Controller
The SPI controller has the following features: †
• Serial master and serial slave controllers – Enable serial communication with serial-master or serial-slave
peripheral devices. †
• Serial interface operation – Programmable choice of the following protocols:
• Motorola SPI protocol
• Texas Instruments Synchronous Serial Protocol
• National Semiconductor Microwire
• DMA controller interface integrated with HPS DMA controller
• SPI master supports
rxd
sample delay
• Transmit and receive FIFO buffers are 256 words deep
• SPI master supports up to four slave selects
• Programmable master serial bit rate
• Programmable data item size of 4 to 16 bits
SPI Block Diagram and System Integration
The SPI supports data bus widths of 32 bits. †
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