Lpc2000

Art Sobel wrote:
> In the process of attaching some SPI peripherals to the chip I ran
> into some strange  behaviour.  There are 4 pins to use, SPICLK, 
MISO,
> MOSI and SSCS, First the SSCS pin must be configured as an SPI PIN 
or
> the other parts of the SPI don't work at all, Next the SSCS signal 
is
> not generated, This means that I must use another GPIO as the CS
> signal. So now it uses 5 pins ......

Maybe I misunderstand, but do you really mean that the pin 
configured as SSCS does not produce any CS signal?  So it's just 
useless, and you have to use yet another pin for this?  

I'm designing a circuit that will use SPI, and I was assuming I 
could use the SSCS for chip select.

- Chris Graham