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Hello,
I'd like to use BCM920737 as a SPI slave configuration, following the example at apps/spi_comm_slave I can send and receive data.
However I have a question : when the chip has nothing to send and therefore TX fifo is empty, what gets sent over the MISO line ? is there any hardware guarantee of a well defined value ? usually other SPI hardware that I've used before guarantee that when a FIFO is empty the value 0x00 is sent. what is the case with BCM920737 ?
running apps/spi_comm_slave code as is and using a generic SPI master I can see garbage sent out on the MISO line when I didn't explicitly set something in the FIFO ? can you confirm that ?
using SDK ver. 2.2
Thanks,
Sheref Younan
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Hello jamesle1,
Yes, I still have this issue. however I we moved this support request to a different forum, we will follow it up there.
Thank you for your support !
Sheref
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Hello.
According to our developers, it should just send 0xFF.
Do you see this behavior?
James
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Hi James,
No, what I see that it sends 0x00 (which is fine) PLUS an undefined byte or two in the beginning (which is what I'm trying to avoid).
so, suppose that the master pushes 5 bytes to BCM920737 acting as a slave, and theBCM920737 TX FIFO is empty.
This is a good example to what I would see: "0x61 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00".
Where 0x61 is undefined byte, usually a byte that was put in the FIFO and sent before, that byte seems to be stuck so if the master pushes another 5 bytes and the TX FIFO is still empty I will see the same values again (0x61 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00).
Steps to reproduce : simply run the SDK SPI slave example spi_comm_slave, connect it to a generic SPI master and after reboot make the master send anything to the app and see what you get.
Thanks,
Sheref
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Hi jamesle1
any updates about that issue ? did you manage to reproduce same observation that I have ?
Thanks,
Sheref
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Hello sheref.younan
Is this still an issue?
I'm sorry to say that I couldn't reproduce your observation.
If you are still having this issue, my only guess is that that first byte that you see, is the byte used by the spi_comm_slave app to represent the number of bytes in a transaction. Although if the TX FIFO was empty in order to begin, it should all just be HIGH.
Does this help?
James
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Hello jamesle1,
Yes, I still have this issue. however I we moved this support request to a different forum, we will follow it up there.
Thank you for your support !
Sheref