Datasheet
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
Technical Data MC68HC908GR8 — Rev 4.0
304 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) MOTOROLA
The clock phase (CPHA) control bit selects one of two fundamentally 
different transmission formats. The clock phase and polarity should be 
identical for the master SPI device and the communicating slave device. 
In some cases, the phase and polarity are changed between 
transmissions to allow a master device to communicate with peripheral 
slaves having different requirements.
NOTE: Before writing to the CPOL bit or the CPHA bit, disable the SPI by 
clearing the SPI enable bit (SPE).
20.6.2 Transmission Format When CPHA = 0
Figure 20-4 shows an SPI transmission in which CPHA is logic 0. The 
figure should not be used as a replacement for data sheet parametric 
information.
Two waveforms are shown for SPSCK: one for CPOL = 0 and another 
for CPOL = 1. The diagram may be interpreted as a master or slave 
timing diagram since the serial clock (SPSCK), master in/slave out 
(MISO), and master out/slave in (MOSI) pins are directly connected 
between the master and the slave. The MISO signal is the output from 
the slave, and the MOSI signal is the output from the master. The SS line 
is the slave select input to the slave. The slave SPI drives its MISO 
output only when its slave select input (SS) is at logic 0, so that only the 
selected slave drives to the master. The SS pin of the master is not 
shown but is assumed to be inactive. The SS pin of the master must be 
high or must be reconfigured as general-purpose I/O not affecting the 
SPI. See Mode Fault Error. When CPHA = 0, the first SPSCK edge is the 
MSB capture strobe. Therefore, the slave must begin driving its data 
before the first SPSCK edge, and a falling edge on the SS pin is used to 
start the slave data transmission. The slave’s SS pin must be toggled 
back to high and then low again between each byte transmitted as 
shown in Figure 20-5.
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