FSX control problem on McBSP as SPI master

Adrien,

Haven't tried this on the McBSP, but it should be somewhat similar to SPI.  I provided a few methods and an example here using the C28x SPI:

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/tms320c2000_32-bit_real-time_mcus/f/171/t/171156.aspx#625809

I think you will get the concept.. unfortunately, there is no seamless way to do it.  Could you tell us more about your application?  We have had numerous requests about this in the somewhat recent past, so we would like to understand the need.  Is this a field application, school project, etc?

Thanks,

Kris

Kris,

My application is a control panel for my company, it's an industrial R&D project.

My application is quiet similar to this representation wherein the Master is my c2000 and the three slaves are three DAC. The connections between the components are identical in my project but I use the McBSP peripheral in SPI mode.

I thought that with the FSX I could control by in an interruption (MXINTA) the chip selects. I configure XINTM = 2 to send XINT request to the CPU when each transmit frame-synchronization pulse is detected ; and in the interruption I control my chip select with the GPIO but I have some problems with that method.

My real problem is how to detect when the transmission to a slave is over to switch the chip select ?

Your application give a good way to implement my solution I will make some tests.

I hope that my explanations are not too confusing.

Regards

Adrien

Adrien,

Thank you for the application information.  This helps us evaluate if we need to make peripheral enhancements such as this.

If you don't mind wasting a few GPIOs, here is another solution I didn't think of in the post I linked you to.  Tie the output of the slave select line which is controlled by the McBSP hardware to a GPIO configured as a XINT.  Set the XINT to generate an interrupt on a rising edge.  Before your transmission, set your GPIO slave select line for whichever device you are communicating to low, indicating that device is selected.  The McBSP generated slave select line will return high when the transmission is completed, generating a XINT interrupt to the CPU.  In this interrupt, just set all of your GPIO slave selects high (you can use an if statement, but probably takes as many or more cycles to figure out which is low).

If you have the pins to spare, this is probably the easiest and least CPU intensive way.

I'm not sure I followed your explanation.  If you could send some diagrams or waveforms or what you expect to happen that might help.  I'm not sure the frame sync signal is functional in SPI mode, but not entirely sure right off hand.  Might be misunderstanding you though.

Kris