XMEGA D4
21. SPI – Serial Peripheral Interface
21.1 Features
• Two Identical SPI peripherals
• Full-duplex, three-wire synchronous data transfer
• Master or slave operation
• Lsb first or msb first data transfer
• Eight programmable bit rates
• Interrupt flag at the end of transmission
• Write collision flag to indicate data collision
• Wake up from idle sleep mode
• Double speed master mode
21.2 Overview
The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a high-speed synchronous data transfer interface using
three or four pins. It allows fast communication between an Atmel AVR XMEGA device and
peripheral devices or between several microcontrollers. The SPI supports full-duplex
communication.
A device connected to the bus must act as a master or slave. The master initiates and controls
all data transactions.
PORTC and PORTD each has one SPI. Notation of these peripherals are SPIC and SPID.
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