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SPI(4)                       Device Drivers Manual                      SPI(4)

NAME
     spi - introduction to machine-independent SPI bus support and drivers

SYNOPSIS
     spi* at mainbus?

     Other attachments are machine-dependent and will depend on the bus
     topology of your system.  See intro(4) for your system for more
     information.

DESCRIPTION
     NetBSD includes a machine dependent SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) bus
     subsystem, and several different machine-independent SPI device drivers.

     Your system may support additional machine-dependent SPI devices.
     Consult your system's intro(4) for additional information.

     SPI is a 4-wire synchronous full-duplex serial bus.  Some systems provide
     support for Microwire, which is Philips' name for a strict subset of SPI,
     with more rigidly defined signaling.  Therefore, Microwire devices are
     also supported by the SPI framework.

     Note that when referencing SPI devices in a config(1) file, the `slave'
     must be provided, as SPI lacks any way to automatically probe devices.

IOCTLS
     The following ioctl(2) calls apply to SPI devices.  They are defined in
     the header file <dev/spi/spi_io.h>:

     SPI_IOCTL_CONFIGURE (spi_ioctl_configure_t)
             Used to choose the operational mode and clock.  The sic_mode
             defines polarity and phase of the clock.  sic_speed is the clock
             speed in Hz, a value of 0 means to keep the default speed of the
             device.

             typedef struct spi_ioctl_configure {
                     int sic_addr;
                     int sic_mode;
                     int sic_speed;
             } spi_ioctl_configure_t;

     SPI_IOCTL_TRANSFER (spi_ioctl_transfer_t)
             Used to handle an I/O transaction.

             typedef struct spi_ioctl_transfer {
                     int sit_addr;
                     const void *sit_send;
                     size_t sit_sendlen;
                     void *sit_recv;
                     size_t sit_recvlen;
             } spi_ioctl_transfer_t;

HARDWARE
     NetBSD includes the following machine-independent SPI drivers:

           bmx280thp(4)     Bosch BMP280 / BME280 sensor.

           m25p(4)          STMicroelectronics M25P family of NOR flash
                            devices.

           mcp23s17gpio(4)  Microchip MCP23S17 16-bit GPIO chip.

           mcp3kadc(4)      Microchip MCP3x0x SAR analog to digital converter.

           mcp48x1dac(4)    Microchip MCP4801/MCP4811/MCP4821 digital to
                            analog converter.

           tm121temp(4)     Texas Instruments TMP121 temperature sensor.

           scmdspi(4)       SPI frontend for the Sparkfun Serial Controlled
                            Motor Driver.

           ssdfb(4)         OLED/PLED framebuffer modules.

FILES
     /dev/spiu  SPI device unit u file.

SEE ALSO
     spi(9)

HISTORY
     The machine-independent SPI framework was written by Garrett D'Amore for
     the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network Project (CUWiN), and
     appeared in NetBSD 4.0.  The ioctl(2) interface allowing configuration
     from userspace appeared in NetBSD 9.0.

NetBSD 10.99                   February 27, 2021                  NetBSD 10.99