EDN

Single UART with I²C-bus/SPI-bus Interface

The SC16IS741 is a single channel universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) with a slave I²C-bus interface or serial peripheral interface bus (SPI-bus) interface. It features 64 bytes of ...
Design-Reuse

Serial Peripheral Interface. SPI, these three letters denote everything you asked for

Electronics is everywhere, especially these days. Many times, as frequent users, we do not even notice a “paradigm change” in the things we use on regular basis. We use a fridge, but we do not care ...
Electronic Design

Isolate Your High-Speed SPI Bus Despite Long Propagation Delays

The serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus is a synchronous, full-duplex, serial data link commonly used for the short-distance data exchange between a master device, such as a microcontroller unit ...
Electronic Design

Using An SPI Interface To Improve FPGA Routing

Using SPI interface to free FPGA routing resources is allowing over 90% utilization, fast timing closure and supports modular design approach without consequences. When doing designs with FPGA you are ...
Hackaday

How-to: Bus Pirate V1, Improved Universal Serial Interface

We use the Bus Pirate to interface a new chip without writing code or designing a PCB. Based on your feedback, and our experience using the original Bus Pirate to demonstrate various parts, we updated ...
Embedded

Serial Communication Protocols Compared

Serial buses dot the landscape of embedded design. From displays to storage to peripherals, serial interfaces make communications possible. Many serial communication interfaces compete for use in ...
Design-Reuse

System Packet Interface (SPI) 4.2 IP Core

System Packet Interface-4 Phase 2 (SPI-4.2) is a protocol used for data transfer between link layer and physical layer. It is an interface for packet and cell transfer between a physical (PHY) layer ...
Electronics Weekly

Bridge chip links one-wire bus to ten I2C or SPI peripherals

Maxim has introduced a chip to interface devices equipped with I2C or SPI bus connections to its ‘1-wire’ bus. Called DS28E18, it is intended to knock cost out of networks that connecting I2C and SPI ...
Hexus

VIA adopts SPI bus for easy BIOS flashing

VIA's upcoming VT8237S south-bridge will implement a serial bus that will allow easy BIOS flashing for the likes of system integrators and motherboard manufacturers. Generally speaking, there are two ...
EDN

Single UART with I²C-Bus/SPI Interface

The SC16IS741A is a slave I²C-bus/SPI interface to a single-channel high performance UART. It offers data rates up to 5 Mbit/s and guarantees low operating and sleeping current. The device comes in ...