Czasowe uwarunkowania współpracy szeregowo-równoległego kontrolera CPLD z mikrokomputerem Raspberry PI i podsystemem PPI

Streszczenie W pracy omówiono właściwości komputerów Raspberry PI. Opisano system z Raspberry PI i rozszerzeniem portów równoległych, korzystający z łącza SPI. Przedyskutowano wymagania czasowe dla komunikacji kontrolera CPLD z komputerem Raspberry i podsystemem PPI. Wyznaczono czasy cykli zapisu i odczytu danych, realizowanych przez Raspberry PI podczas komunikacji z układem CPLD. Przedstawiono wyniki badań, pozwalające na oszacowanie szybkości transferu danych w systemie i wskazanie ograniczeń.

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In this paper the hardware and software relations in data transfer between Raspberry Pi and peripheral PPI devices, via a CPLD controller are discussed. The necessity of increasing parallel I/O lines in a microprocessor system based on the Raspberry PI, a popular educational microcomputer module, is shown. An example of the system with the Raspberry PI, the SPI/PPI controller and programmable peripheral interface devices 82C55A is presented (Fig. 1). The time requirements for communication between the Raspberry PI central unit (BCM2835), the SPI/PPI controller and PPI devices are discussed and the examples of timing for 82C55A PPI read and write cycles are shown (Figs. 2 and 3). The software (based on C language and libraries) procedure of time T measurement, for sending of two bytes via SPI (SPI of BCM2835 works in standard master mode) and confirming /STR signal is presented (Fig. 4). The value of this time is not constant. It depends on a few components, also on the delays produced by the operating system. The experimental calculations were carried out for the mode value of T determined on 10000 samples (Fig. 5). The value of fSCK (frequency clock for SPI) and for tSPI (SPI time for one byte) as a function of a different SPI divider were analyzed (Figs. 6 and 7). Finally, the coefficient 2·tSPI/T as a function of the SPI divider was determined and presented (Fig. 8). The obtained results showed the communication speed limitation and enabled us to choose the right SPI clock divider as well as to estimate the time of data transfer via the SPI interface implemented in the CPLD controller.