Master/Slave Octal SPI Controller
Designed to work with a wide variety of SPI-bus variants, the core supports run-time control of several SPI protocol parameters. For example, the SPI frame width can be 1 to 4 bytes, the most-significant bit position in a frame, serial clock phase and polarity are all software-programmable. In master mode the core can control up to 32 slaves. A software-controllable clock generator derives the serial clock for master mode, by dividing the frequency of a clock line dedicated for that purpose.
The SPI-MS provides access to is status and control registers, and to the SPI transfer data via a 32-bit APB slave interface. The core treats the APB and SPI clocks as asynchronous to each other, and implements a clean clock-domain crossing boundary. The core implements two configurable-depth FIFOs, one for the receiver and one for the transmitter path. To ease integration, an interrupt can be generated to indicate availability of a programmable amount of received data or availability to transmit a programmable amount of new data.
The SPI-MS core is rigorously verified, silicon-proven and available in RTL source or as a targeted FPGA netlist.
Features
- SPI I/O interface
- - Compliant to the SPI de-facto standard
- - Single, dual, quad and octal serial data lines
- - Software programmable transmission formats (CPOL and CPHA)
- - Up to 32 slaves supported under master control
- Configurable SPI transfers
- - Fast sampling clock input for the SPI transfers
- - FIFOs used for transferring data (configurable depth)
- - Full duplex operation
- - LSB or MSB mode
- - 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit synchronous serial transmission
- APB interface
- - Compatible with the APB3 protocol specification
- - Software programmable Master or Slave mode
- - Software programmable SCLK rate
- - Interrupt control
- Smooth Technology Mapping
- - Fully synchronous, scan-ready, LINT-clean design
- - Delivered with sample scripts, RTL test-bench and sample test-cases
Deliverables
- Synthesizable RTL or FPGA netlist
- Testbench & sample test cases
- Simulation & synthesis scripts
- Documentation
Applications
- The SPI-MS core is suitable for implementing serial interfaces in a wide range of applications, including host communication with flash memories, and peripherals such as sensors, ADC/DACs, touchscreens, video game controllers, and audio/video codecs.
Block Diagram of the Master/Slave Octal SPI Controller IP Core

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