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Improved SPI I/O in Logisim

A project log for muCPU: an 8-bit MCU

An 8-bit load-store CPU with 2 pipeline stages, designed in Logisim and implemented in VHDL + assembler written in Python

reed-fosterReed Foster 05/02/2016 at 00:130 Comments

This controller adds more functionality that the other lacked. The operation of the controller itself is almost entirely standalone and only requires an input of a clock signal and a steady address signal during operation. I added a FIFO to the input as well so that the data in the shift register is not overwritten when the write input pin is asserted. In addition, a D-FF is set whenever the write pin is asserted, and the flip-flop is only reset when the master has sent a byte and the slave is no longer sending data (might need changing depending on operation of slaves). The output of the D-FF is the cs signal, which is inverted for the ~cs line to the slave. Currently there are only two slaves; one sends the byte it receives back to the master, and the other sends a pseudorandom byte to the master. Here's the .circ file on Github.

SPI controller

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