Online course on Embedded Systems- module 12: SPI Bus interface

Introduction: Serial to Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a hardware/firmware communications protocol developed by Motorola and later adopted by others in the industry. Microwire of National Semiconductor is same as SPI. Sometimes SPI is also called a "four wire" serial bus. The Serial Peripheral Interface or SPI-bus is a simple 4-wire serial communications interface used by many microprocessor/microcontroller peripheral chips that enables the controllers and peripheral devices to communicate each other. Even though it is developed primarily for the communication between host processor and peripherals, a connection of two processors via SPI is just as well possible. The SPI bus, which operates at full duplex (means, signals carrying data can go in both directions simultaneously), is a synchronous type data link setup with a Master / Slave interface and can support up to 1 megabaud or 10Mbps of speed. Both single-master and multi-master protocols are possible in SPI. But the multi-master bus is rarely used and look awkward, and are usually limited to a single slave. The SPI Bus is usually used only on the PCB. There are many facts, which prevent us from using it outside the PCB area. The SPI Bus was designed to transfer data between various IC chips, at very high speeds. Due to this high-speed aspect, the bus lines cannot be too long, because their reactance incr...