Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI) is a digital communication bus commonly used for interconnecting chips on a printed circuit board.

An SPI bus interconnects a master with one or more slaves. Communication is triggered by the master, and is full duplex, i.e. for each byte the master sends to the slave, the slave sends one to the master, at the same time.

An SPI bus consists of the following lines:

• MISO (Master-In-Slave-Out) is used for the slave to send data bits to the master.
• MOSI (Master-Out-Slave-In) is used for the master to send data bits to the slave.
• CLK (clock) is used by the master to output a clock signal to time the transmission of the data bits.
• CS (chip select) or SS (slave select) is used by the master to select which slave it wishes to talk to. There needs to be one independent CS line from the master to each of the slaves.

In a single-master-single-slave scenario, an SPI transaction goes as follows:

• The master lowers the CS line, indicating a transaction is starting
• The master starts outputting a clock signal (a "square wave") on the CLK line
• At each rising edge of the CLK line:
  • The master samples the MISO line. If it's high, that's a 1, if it's low, a 0.
  • The slave samples the MOSI line. If it's high, that's a 1, if it's low, a 0.
• The transaction goes on until the master stops sending a CLK signal, and raises the CS line.

SPI on 

LTC5800

The libraries provided with the 

On-Chip Software Development Kit

The following logic analyzer screen shots illustrate some of the configurations. These were obtained by running the 02-spi project from the 

On-Chip Software Development Kit

The screenshot below shows the SPI master (the 

LTC5800

• There is no slave attached. The MISO line stays high and the master therefore always receives 0xffffffffffffffff.
• The CLK frequency is set to the 1/16th of the CPU clock frequency. With a CPU clock at 7.4MHz, the CLK period is 2.16us.
• Sampling is set up to happen on a rising edge.
• The SS0n pin is used for the CS line.
• Data is sent most-significant-bit (msb) first, i.e. 5 is encoded as b00000101.

The following shows some of the settings of the SPI master module.

the SS0n pin is used as CS line	the SS1n pin is used as CS line

most-significant-bit (msb) first	least-significant-bit (lsb) first

CLK line at 1/16th the CPU speed	CLK line at 1/8th the CPU speed

sampling on the rising edge of CLK	sampling on the falling edge of CLK

CLK is low when not in use	CLK is high when not in use

The 02-spi Sample Application

The 02-spi sample application shows how to use SPI. Compile and load this application on your 

DC9003

When you run the application, each second:

• The following bytes are sent over the SPI bus: 0x000102030405060708

• The device prints on the CLI what bytes have been sent and received

  spi app, ver 1.0.0.1
  SmartMeshIP stack, ver 1.2.1.3
  SPI sent:     00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  SPI received: 6f 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
  SPI sent:     00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  SPI received: 77 78 79 7a 7b 7c 7d 7e
  SPI sent:     00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  SPI received: 7f 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
  SPI sent:     00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  SPI received: 87 88 89 8a 8b 8c 8d 8e
  SPI sent:     00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  SPI received: 8f 90 91 92 93 94 95 96

The 02-spi_net Sample Application

The 02-spi_net sample application periodically sends the 4 bytes 0x00010203 over SPI, and sends the received bytes to the 

SmartMesh manager

The figure below is a typical CLI output:

spi_net app, ver 1.0.0.1
SmartMeshIP stack, ver 1.2.1.3
Current config:
 - period:  10000
 11037 : Joining
 11797 : Connected
 18084 : Active
SPI sent:     00 01 02 03
SPI received: 17 18 19 1a
SPI sent:     00 01 02 03
SPI received: 1b 1c 1d 1e
SPI sent:     00 01 02 03
SPI received: 1f 20 21 22
SPI sent:     00 01 02 03
SPI received: 23 24 25 26

in this case:

• period is 10000ms, i.e. the application sends one packet to the 

  SmartMesh manager

   every 10s.

You can connect the ApiExplorer application to your 

SmartMesh manager

At any time, you can change the configuration values through CLI:

• type period 5000 to publish every 5s.