SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE DAISY CHAIN MODE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS
First Claim
1. An apparatus for entering daisy-chain mode in an SPI device comprising:
- an input to receive serial data;
a clock pin to receive a temporal signal;
a select pin whereby when asserted, the SPI device receives data over the input; and
,a serial output whose default instruction is a signal to enable daisy chain mode.
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Abstract
SPI frame for simultaneously entering 8 bit daisy-chain mode from 16 bit register addressable mode. Some products that implement SPI may be connected in a daisy chain configuration, the first slave output being connected to the second slave input, etc. The SPI port of each slave is designed to send out during the second group of clock pulses an exact copy of the data it received during the first group of clock pulses. The whole chain acts as a communication shift register; daisy chaining is often done with shift registers to provide a bank of inputs or outputs through SPI. Large latency occurs during the entry into daisy-chain mode which increases as a function of the number of linked SPI devices. A means for simultaneously instructing all connected devices to enter/enable daisy-chain mode is disclosed.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus for entering daisy-chain mode in an SPI device comprising:
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an input to receive serial data; a clock pin to receive a temporal signal; a select pin whereby when asserted, the SPI device receives data over the input; and
,a serial output whose default instruction is a signal to enable daisy chain mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17)
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12. A system for entering daisy-chain mode comprising:
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an SPI master device; and
,a plurality of SPI slave devices concatenated in a daisy chain configuration, each SPI slave device comprises; an input to receive serial data; a clock pin to receive a temporal signal; a select pin whereby when asserted, the SPI slave device receives data over the input; and
,a serial output whose default instruction is a signal to enable daisy chain mode. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19)
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20. An apparatus for entering daisy-chain mode in an SPI device comprising:
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a means for receiving serial data; a means for receiving a clock signal; a means for receiving a select signal, whereby when asserted, the SPI device receives data over the input; and
,a means for transmitting serial, wherein the default transmission is a signal to enable daisy chain mode.
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