SPI slave
A mininal sized SPI slave interface.
FPGA proven NO
ASIC proven NO
Description
This is the implementation of a very simple SPI slave interface.
It can be used where registers are at a premium, e.g. a CPLD.
This design uses 24 registers,
- 10 Are for the SPI core itself
- 2 Are read address bits
- 12 Are for the two 6-bit outputs
The design does NOT need any clock or reset signals alongside
the standard SPI signals. However it uses both the spi_clk as well as the spi_cs_n
signals to clock registers. (This means ideally these signals should drive a dedicated FPGA/CPLD clock pin)
The design does not require any other clock or reset, however this also implies that
arriving data is dealt with a-synchronously. That means you will have meta stability
when the arriving data is changing at the same time that it is read.
In the archive you find the following modules:
The code can be found here
As usual the code comes with test benches, in this case a self-checking testbench.
- spi_slave_test.v The testbench
- spi_test_master.v A behavioural SPI master used in testing.
A document describing the SPI slave module is forthcoming.