RM0016 Serial peripheral interface (SPI)
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20.3.4 Configuring the SPI for simplex communications
The SPI is capable of operating in simplex mode in 2 configurations.
● 1 clock and 1 bidirectional data wire
● 1 clock and 1 data wire (Receive-only or Transmit-only)
1 clock and 1 bidirectional data wire
This mode is enabled by setting the BDM bit in the SPI_CR2 register. In this mode SCK is
used for the clock, and MOSI in master or MISO in slave mode is used for data
communication. The transfer direction (Input/output) is selected by the BDOE bit in the
SPI_CR2 register. When this bit is set to 1, the data line is output, otherwise it is input.
1 clock and 1 unidirectional data wire (BDM = 0)
In this mode, the application can use the SPI either in transmit-only mode or in receive-only
mode:
● Transmit-only mode is similar to full-duplex mode (BDM = 0, RXONLY = 0): the data is
transmitted to the transmit pin (MOSI in master mode or MISO in slave mode) and the
receive pin (MISO in master mode or MOSI in slave mode) can be used as general
purpose I/O. In this case, the application just needs to ignore the Rx buffer (if the data
register is read, it does not contain the received value).
● In receive-only mode, the application can disable the SPI output function by setting the
RXONLY bit in the SPI_CR2 register. In this case, it frees the transmit I/O pin (MOSI in
master mode or MISO in slave mode) so it can be used for other purposes.
To start the communication in receive-only mode, configure and enable the SPI:
● In master mode, the communication starts immediately and stops when the SPE bit is
reset and the current reception stops. There is no need to read the BSY flag in this
mode. It is always set when an SPI communication is ongoing.
● In slave mode, the SPI continues to receive as long as the NSS is pulled down (or the
SSI bit is reset in NSS software mode) and the SCK is running.
20.3.5 Data transmission and reception procedures
Rx and Tx buffer
In reception, data are received and then stored into an internal Rx buffer while In
transmission, data are first stored into an internal Tx buffer before being transmitted.
A read access of the SPI_DR register returns the Rx buffered value whereas a write access
of the SPI_DR stores the written data into the Tx buffer.
Start sequence in master mode
● In full-duplex (BDM = 0 and RXONLY = 0)
– The sequence begins when data is written into the SPI_DR register (Tx buffer).
– The data is then parallel loaded from the Tx buffer into the 8-bit shift register
during the first bit transmission and then shifted out serially to the MOSI pin.
– At the same time, the received data on MISO pin is shifted in serially to the 8-bit
shift register and then parallel loaded into the SPI_DR register (Rx Buffer).
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