Chapter 10. Serial Peripheral Interface - SPI
As we have already seen in the previous chapter, the I2C bus is widely used to connect on-board devices with the main CPU, but another bus with similar features exists: the (SPISerial Peripheral Interface (SPI). However, and opposed to the I2C bus, this bus can transfer data at higher rates than I2C, and since it's full-duplex, data transfer can take place bidirectionally at the same time. Due to these features, the SPI bus is normally used to implement an efficient data stream for multimedia applications (LCDs/video) or digital signal processing and/or telecommunications devices (Ethernet, WLAN, CAN, Serial Ports, and so on) and SD cards. However, despite this fact, it can be used to communicate with ...
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