SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Karl Ylvisaker — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:17:04 GMT

No problem at all, I am happy to help.

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"] Many things are now clear to me.[/quote]

I am glad to hear that!

Let me know if you should encounter any more issues, or have more questions! :)

Best regards,
Karl

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Jagruti — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:06:32 GMT

Hi,

Thank you so much for the detailed answer. Many things are now clear to me. I will try your solution.

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Karl Ylvisaker — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:31:00 GMT

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"]But still few things were unclear.[/quote]

Is there certain parameters you are uncertain about? Please let me know, then I will explain their usage. You may also want to see the different defines in the spi.h file. It is located in NCS\zephyr\include\drivers\spi.h
There you can read the description of each parameter, if you would like.

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"]I did not understand how to set other parameters.[/quote]

Are you referring to the bitwise or ' | ' operation taking place in the example code?
The main thing to note here is that the .operation element of the spi_config struct is a 16 bit bit-field. So, you configure this by doing the bitwise or operation between the different functionality you would like. Are you familiar with bitfields and bitwise operations?
As an example, if you were to configure slave mode and a word_size of 8, it would look like this:

static const struct spi_config spi_cfg = 
{
    .operation = SPI_OP_MODE_SLAVE | SPI_WORD_SIZE_SET(8),
};

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"]As it is a slave, the cs pin will be active_low.[/quote]

This option is not for configuring it as a slave. The option exists because some devices would rather like the CS signal to be active high, instead of active low. This is not necessary to set for your application.
The default value is active_low, so you do not need to do anything with it when using SPI between nRF9160 and nRF52840, since both of these devices use active_low.

If you are not certain how to use the SPI, you could take a look at the hci_spi example from the ncs sdk, located in ncs\zephyr\samples\bluetooth\hci_spi
This example demonstrates pushing data received from BLE to another device using SPI.
The example documentation can be seen here.

Please let me know if things are still unclear.

Best regards,
Karl

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Jagruti — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:49:00 GMT

I read the SPI API reference. But still few things were unclear.

My spi config struct looks like this:

static const struct spi_config spi_cfg = {
//	.operation = SPI_OP_MODE_SLAVE | SPI_MODE_CPOL | SPI_MODE_CPHA,
        .operation = SPI_OP_MODE_SLAVE,
	.frequency = 4000000,
	//.slave = 1,

};

I did not understand how to set other parameters. As it is a slave, the cs pin will be active_low. But how to set the spi mode that I did not understand and even in .slave parameter what value goes, that is also not clear to me. While configuring master, it was set to 0.

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Karl Ylvisaker — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:41:47 GMT

I see.
If you would share the relevant code you have written to configure your nRF9160 as SPI Slave, I could take a look.

Do you configure it as SPI_OP_MODE_SLAVE in the SPI config?
The different configuration parameters are detailed in the Zephyr SPI API Reference I linked earlier.

Best regards,
Karl

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Jagruti — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:19:57 GMT

Yes the performance was as expected when I flashed SPI master example on nrf52 and as well as on nrf91. On nrf91, I used zephyr spi drivers. But when I connected nrf91 spi salve to nrf52 spi master. The data was not received on nrf91. There was error on nrf91 side. I think I did not configure nrf91 as spi slave properly. That's why the error is coming and there is no communication between nrf52 and nrf91. I have not yet understood how to the configuration for spi slave. I must be missing something.

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Karl Ylvisaker — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:38:25 GMT

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"]Thank you for the documentation.[/quote]

No problem at all, I am happy to help!

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"]Separately they are working properly.[/quote]

What do you mean when you say this; do you mean that the performance was as expected when you flashed one device with the SPI Slave example, and another one with the SPI Master example?

[quote user="Jagruti_N2A"]I2C communication is good between both the DKs.[/quote]

I am glad to hear that you have achieve the communication you were after.
If required, I would not think setting up SPI should prove to be a large endeavor.

Best regards,
Karl

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Jagruti — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:23:25 GMT

Thank you for the documentation.

Yes I was looking for Zephyr SPI driver as well as nrf drivers for nRF52 also. I tried the spi programs on both the DKs. Separately they are working properly. But when I try to read from nrf52 on nrf91, it shows error. So now I am switching to I2C. I2C communication is good between both the DKs. I can receive data from nrf52.

But still curious why spi did not work together.

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Karl Ylvisaker — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:07:36 GMT

My mistake.
Here is the SPI API Reference for the Zephyr SPI driver.
Is this what you were looking for?

Best regards,
Karl

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Jagruti — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:16:18 GMT

Actually I want to configure nRF9160DK as spi slave. So can you please provide the document for that. For nRF91 I am using zephyr spis driver.

RE: SPI communication between nRF9160DK and nRF52840DK

Karl Ylvisaker — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:07:22 GMT

Hello,

Have you attempted to flash one of the devices with the SPI Slave example, and the other with the SPI Master example - and testing them according to their documentation?
If you have not, please do it and let me know if you experience any unexpected results.

Are you working out of an example provided in the SDK? If so, which one?
Could you also tell me where the code snippet you provided is from, I am unable to recognize it.

[quote user=""]I am not understanding how to set these parameters to configure spi in slave and receive the data.[/quote]

Have you seen the SPIS API Reference or Data Structure description in the SDK documentation?
They detail the different options for each data structure and driver functions.
You might also be interested in seeing this description of SPI Slave driver usage.

Was this what you were looking for?

[quote user=""] but spi_read shows error[/quote]

Please detail what error it shows, and when it is encountered.

Best regards,
Karl