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Re: [AVR-Chat] Some help required with SPI on Mega16

2006-02-13 by David Kelly

On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:02 PM, kernels_nz wrote:

> My question is, what do I do when I want to clock data out of a slave
> device (non AVR IC) ? Can I clock 0x00 into the slave device and once
> I have clocked the byte out with the Mega as master, read the SPDR
> register and this should contain a byte clocked out by the slave ?

Yes, but make sure whatever you shift into the slave device is not a  
command or data that the slave is going to act upon and do something  
undesired. 0x00 is usually safe.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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