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When the application software is expecting to receive
13.2 Operation
valid data, the SSPBUF should be read before the next
byte of data to transfer is written to the SSPBUF. Buffer
Full bit BF of the SSPSTAT register indicates when
SSPBUF has been loaded with the received data
(transmission is complete). When the SSPBUF is read,
the BF bit is cleared. This data may be irrelevant if the
SPI is only a transmitter. Generally, the SSP interrupt is
used to determine when the transmission/reception
has completed. The SSPBUF must be read and/or
written. If the interrupt method is not going to be used,
then software polling can be done to ensure that a write
collision does not occur. Example 13-1 shows the
loading of the SSPBUF (SSPSR) for data transmission.
When initializing the SPI, several options need to be
specified. This is done by programming the appropriate
control bits (SSPCON<5:0> and SSPSTAT<7:6>).
These control bits allow the following to be specified:
• Master mode (SCK is the clock output)
• Slave mode (SCK is the clock input)
• Clock Polarity (Idle state of SCK)
• Data Input Sample Phase (middle or end of data
output time)
• Clock Edge (output data on rising/falling edge of
SCK)
• Clock Rate (Master mode only)
The SSPSR is not directly readable or writable and can
only be accessed by addressing the SSPBUF register.
Additionally, the SSP Status register (SSPSTAT)
indicates the various status conditions.
• Slave Select mode (Slave mode only)
The SSP consists of a transmit/receive shift register
(SSPSR) and a buffer register (SSPBUF). The SSPSR
shifts the data in and out of the device, MSb first. The
SSPBUF holds the data that was written to the SSPSR
until the received data is ready. Once the eight bits of
data have been received, that byte is moved to the
SSPBUF register. Then, the Buffer Full Status bit BF of
the SSPSTAT register, and the interrupt flag bit SSPIF,
are set. This double-buffering of the received data
(SSPBUF) allows the next byte to start reception before
reading the data that was just received. Any write to the
SSPBUF register during transmission/reception of data
will be ignored and the Write Collision Detect bit,
WCOL of the SSPCON register, will be set. User
software must clear the WCOL bit so that it can be
determined if the following write(s) to the SSPBUF
register completed successfully.
EXAMPLE 13-1:
LOADING THE SSPBUF (SSPSR) REGISTER
BSF
BCF
STATUS,RP0
STATUS,RP1
;Bank 1
;
LOOP
BTFSS SSPSTAT, BF
;Has data been received(transmit complete)?
;No
;Bank 0
;WREG reg = contents of SSPBUF
;Save in user RAM, if data is meaningful
;W reg = contents of TXDATA
;New data to xmit
GOTO
BCF
MOVF
MOVWF
MOVF
MOVWF
LOOP
STATUS,RP0
SSPBUF, W
RXDATA
TXDATA, W
SSPBUF
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