EDN

Single UART with I²C-bus/SPI-bus Interface

The SC16IS741 is a single channel universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) with a slave I²C-bus interface or serial peripheral interface bus (SPI-bus) interface. It features 64 bytes of ...
Design-Reuse

Serial Peripheral Interface. SPI, these three letters denote everything you asked for

Electronics is everywhere, especially these days. Many times, as frequent users, we do not even notice a “paradigm change” in the things we use on regular basis. We use a fridge, but we do not care ...
Electronic Design

Using An SPI Interface To Improve FPGA Routing

Using SPI interface to free FPGA routing resources is allowing over 90% utilization, fast timing closure and supports modular design approach without consequences. When doing designs with FPGA you are ...
Hackaday

How-to: Bus Pirate V1, Improved Universal Serial Interface

We use the Bus Pirate to interface a new chip without writing code or designing a PCB. Based on your feedback, and our experience using the original Bus Pirate to demonstrate various parts, we updated ...
Electronic Design

Isolate Your High-Speed SPI Bus Despite Long Propagation Delays

Using an isolated serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus can be a challenge when dealing with higher speeds. Find out what the limits are. The serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus is a synchronous, ...
Design-Reuse

System Packet Interface (SPI) 4.2 IP Core

System Packet Interface-4 Phase 2 (SPI-4.2) is a protocol used for data transfer between link layer and physical layer. It is an interface for packet and cell transfer between a physical (PHY) layer ...
Electronics Weekly

Bridge chip links one-wire bus to ten I2C or SPI peripherals

Maxim has introduced a chip to interface devices equipped with I2C or SPI bus connections to its ‘1-wire’ bus. Called DS28E18, it is intended to knock cost out of networks that connecting I2C and SPI ...
Hexus

VIA adopts SPI bus for easy BIOS flashing

VIA's upcoming VT8237S south-bridge will implement a serial bus that will allow easy BIOS flashing for the likes of system integrators and motherboard manufacturers. Generally speaking, there are two ...
EDN

Single UART with I²C-Bus/SPI Interface

The SC16IS741A is a slave I²C-bus/SPI interface to a single-channel high performance UART. It offers data rates up to 5 Mbit/s and guarantees low operating and sleeping current. The device comes in ...