[meta-xilinx] SPI problem

[Mike Looijmans]

It would help a lot if you'd disclose what chip you're trying to communicate 
with. (My wild guess would be a maxim ultrasound chip, am I far of the mark here?)

Are you sure this isn't just compatible with existing SPI mode/phase settings?

And you have a huge FPGA at your disposal if you have a Xilinx device of any 
kind. I'd suggest just solving this in a bit of FPGA logic instead of in 
userspace C code.



On 09-05-17 14:54, Arno Steffens wrote:
> I have a rather strange SPI protocol to run: write and read use different edges to sample.
> See image:
>
> I configured the spi like that:
>
>   static u8 mode_wr = 0;
>   static u8 mode_rd = 1;
>
>   ret = ioctl(file_spi0, SPI_IOC_WR_MODE, &mode_wr);
>   if (ret == -1)
>       printf("can't set spi mode");
>
>   ret = ioctl(file_spi0, SPI_IOC_RD_MODE, &mode_rd);
>   if (ret == -1)
>       printf("can't get spi mode");
>
>
> The transfer itself runs via:
>
> ret = ioctl(file_spi0, SPI_IOC_MESSAGE(1), &transfer);
>
> But it seems, that only SPI_IOC_WR_MODE has an effect for both, write and read.
> Is this a limitation of hardware, bug in driver or my bug?
>
> So I have to chose either sending correct address or receive correct data.
> For only mode=1 and adress=0 it works fully (as with constant 0 sampling edge is not of importance).
>
> (as in the  struct spi_ioc_transfer only bits_per_word = 8 are allowed, I use a 4 byte transfer (32bit) for these 9+1+16=26 bit.)
> From what I see in Osci this seems to be fine, although it is some bit-fiddling.
>
> Best regards
> Arno
>
>
>



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
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