TSS463C ATMEL Corporation, TSS463C Datasheet - Page 9

• Manufacturer Part Number: TSS463C
• Description: Van Data Link Controller With Serial Interface
• Manufacturer: ATMEL Corporation

SCI Mode
SCLK: Serial Clock
MOSI: Master Out Slave In
MISO: Master In Slave Out
SS: Slave Select
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The master device provides the serial clock on the TxD pin and is still connected to
SCLK pin of the slave device.
Then, the RxD replaces the MOSI and MISO pins and is a bidirectional pin. To achieve
a correct communication, the user should add a few gates to connect the master RxD
pin to the MOSI-MISO slave pins.
Figure 5 proposes two 3-state buffers controlled by the master through a general pur-
pose I/O pin.
It is obvious that, in this Intel SPI mode, the master cannot monitor the ’0xAA and
0x55’synchronization bytes while sending the address and control bytes. It is the only
exception of this mode compared with the Motorola SPI mode.
The SCI mode is the third type of interface. The TSS463C enters this mode if the Initial-
ization Sequence contains (first two bytes received) ’0x00, 0xFF’.
The SCI is compatible with a 9-bits SCI protocol. The interface is implemented for slave-
mode only (the TSS463C cannot generate SCI frames by itself).
The SCI interface allows an interconnection of several CPUs and peripherals on the
same printed circuit board.
The SCI mode interface consists of 4 pins: separate wires are required for data and
clock, so the clock is not included in the data stream as shown in Figure 7. One pin is
needed for the serial clock (SCLK), two pins for data exchange MOSI and MISO and
one pin for Slave Select (SS).
Figure 6. SCI Data Stream
The master device provides the serial clock for the slave devices. Data is transferred
synchronously with this clock in both directions. The master and the slave devices
exchange a data byte during a nine clock pulses sequence. However, the TSS463C will
only monitor 8 bits on its MOSI line and send 9 bits on its MISO line.
The MOSI pin is the master device data output (CPU) and the slave device data input
(TSS463C). Data is transferred serially from the master to the slave on this line; least
significant bit (LSB) first, most significant bit (MSB) last. The TSS463C will only monitor
8 bits starting from the LSB to MSB-1.
The MISO pin is configured as the slave device data output (TSS463C) and as master
device data input (CPU). When the slave device is not selected (SS = 1), this pin is in
high impedance state. The value of the MSB (9
’1’and should not be used by the master.
The SS pin is the slave chip select. It is low active. A low state on the Slave Select input
allows the TSS463C to accept data on the MOSI pin and send data on the MISO pin.
MOSI
SCLK
MISO
SS
SCI 9 Pulses
0x55
0x66
th
bit) sent on the MISO pin will always be
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