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Interfacing Multiple SPI Slaves with FX3/CX3/FX3S - KBA229105

Interfacing Multiple SPI Slaves with FX3/CX3/FX3S - KBA229105

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Translation - Japanese: FX3/CX3/FX3Sとの多重SPIインターフェース - KBA229105 - Community Translated (JA)

Question:
How to interface multiple SPI slaves with FX3?

Answer:
The default SDK example, UsbSpiRegMode, available in the path mentioned below supports interfacing only a single SPI slave. This may not be suitable for applications where multiple slaves are to be interfaced.

Firmware example path: FX3_Installation_path\EZ-USB FX3 SDK\1.3\firmware\serialif_examples\cyfxusbspiregmode

This article shows how to configure FX3 to work with multiple SPI slaves (two slaves). We can use FX3 GPIOs as software-controlled SSN (Slave Select – Active low) lines between the FX3 and the two slaves. Figure 1 shows the block diagram for this use case.

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Figure 1: Interfacing FX3 to Multiple SPI Slaves

Data Transfer Flow:     

1. Configure a simple GPIO, say GPIO[33] as SSN line for SPI Slave 1; configure another simple GPIO, say GPIO[34] as SSN line for SPI Slave 2.

2. Whenever the master wants to communicate with any of the slaves, follow these steps:

    • Drive the Slave Select GPIO low using CyU3PGpioSetValue(GPIO_NUMBER, CyFalse).
    • Send/receive SPI data.
    • Drive the Slave Select GPIO high using CyU3PGpioSetValue(GPIO_NUMBER, CyTrue).

Firmware Modifications:

1. Define two GPIOs to be used as Software Slave Select lines.

     #define GPIO_SSN1 (33)
     #define GPIO_SSN2 (34)

2. Initialize the GPIO block in the firmware and configure two GPIOs as simple GPIOs to be used as software slave select functionality as follows:

    /* Configure GPIO 33 as output(GPIO_SSN1). */

  gpioConfig.outValue = CyTrue;

  gpioConfig.inputEn = CyFalse;

  gpioConfig.driveLowEn = CyTrue;

  gpioConfig.driveHighEn = CyTrue;

  gpioConfig.intrMode = CY_U3P_GPIO_NO_INTR;

  apiRetStatus = CyU3PGpioSetSimpleConfig(GPIO_SSN1, &gpioConfig);

    if (apiRetStatus != CY_U3P_SUCCESS)

    {

/* Error handling */

CyU3PDebugPrint (4, "CyU3PGpioSetSimpleConfig for GPIO Id %d failed, error code = %d\n",

GPIO_SSN1, apiRetStatus);

CyFxAppErrorHandler(apiRetStatus);

    }

    /* Configure GPIO 34 as output(GPIO_SSN2) */

  gpioConfig.outValue = CyTrue;

  gpioConfig.inputEn = CyFalse;

  gpioConfig.driveLowEn = CyTrue;

  gpioConfig.driveHighEn = CyTrue;

  gpioConfig.intrMode = CY_U3P_GPIO_NO_INTR;

  apiRetStatus = CyU3PGpioSetSimpleConfig(GPIO_SSN2, &gpioConfig);  

    if (apiRetStatus != CY_U3P_SUCCESS)

    {

/* Error handling */

CyU3PDebugPrint (4, "CyU3PGpioSetSimpleConfig for GPIO Id %d failed, error code = %d\n",

GPIO_SSN1, apiRetStatus);

CyFxAppErrorHandler(apiRetStatus);

    }

}

3. In the SPI initialization block, add :

    1. spiConfig.ssnCtrl = CY_U3P_SPI_SSN_CTRL_FW; and
    2. spiConfig.cpol = CyTrue;

This will enable the slave select to be configured using the firmware (software-controlled SSN lines with active low polarity).

4. For data transfer using the software-controlled SSN lines, do the following:

  

/* For slave 1*/

/* Drive GPIO low- GPIO_SSN1*/

CyU3PGpioSimpleSetValue (GPIO_SSN1, CyFalse);

/* Send or Receive data */            

          status = CyU3PSpiTransmitWords (location, 4);         

          if (status != CY_U3P_SUCCESS)

            {

CyU3PDebugPrint (2, "SPI WRITE command failed\r\n");

/* drive GPIO high - GPIO_SSN1*/

CyU3PGpioSimpleSetValue (GPIO_SSN1, CyTrue);

return status;

            }

         status = CyU3PSpiTransmitWords (buffer, glSpiPageSize);

            if (status != CY_U3P_SUCCESS)

            {

CyU3PGpioSimpleSetValue (GPIO_SSN1, CyTrue);

return status;

            }

/* Drive GPIO high - GPIO_SSN1*/

CyU3PGpioSimpleSetValue (GPIO_SSN1, CyTrue);               

The above process can be used for reading data from the slave as well by using the CyU3PSpiReceiveWords()API, by asserting and de-asserting the GPIO as described earlier.

The above code snippet can be modified to be used for Slave 2 by using GPIO_SSN2 in place of GPIO_SSN1.

You can use the UsbSpiRegMode example with the above modification to interface two slaves with FX3 using software-controlled SSN lines.

Note: If the application involves more slaves, the required software-controlled SSN lines used should be equal to the number of slaves.

                                             

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