PIC Peripheral Interface Controllers

SPI protocol and RTC DS1306 interface

Amit Kulkarni

Objectives

MSSP module
Master synchronous module is a serial interface. Useful for communicating with other peripheral or microcontroller devices. These peripheral devices may be serial EEPROMs, shift registers, display drivers, A/D converters, etc.

MSSP module
The MSSP module can operate in one of two modes:

Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Inter-Integrated Circuit (I C)

2

Full Master mode Slave mode (with general address call)

The I C interface supports the following modes in hardware:

2

Master mode Multi-Master mode Slave mode

Control registers
The MSSP module has three associated registers. These include a status register (SSPSTAT) and two control registers (SSPCON1 and SSPCON2). The use of these registers and their individual configuration bits differ significantly depending on whether the MSSP module is operated in SPI or I2C mode.

SPI mode
Originally started by Motorola Corp. Used in many devices such as ADC,DAC, EEPROM etc. The SPI mode allows 8 bits of data to be synchronously transmitted and received simultaneously. To accomplish communication, typically three pins are used: Serial Data Out (SDO) RC5/SDO Serial Data In (SDI) RC4/SDI/SDA Serial Clock (SCK) RC3/SCK/SCL

SPI read write

uC is used as master and SPI device is used as slave. uC generates the SCLK which is fed to the SCLK pin of SPI device. This synchronizes the transfer operation one bit at time. MSB goes first, CE remains HIGH.

SPI read write

Information is transferred in groups of 8-bits. Address is immediately followed by the data. To distinguish between the read and write operations:

D7 bit of address byte is always HIGH (1) for write D7 bit of address byte is always LOW (0) for read

Steps for writing

Timing

Multi-byte burst write

Steps for reading data from SPI

Steps for reading data from SPI

DS1306 RTC interfacing

Pin description

DS1306 Pin description

DS1306 Pin description

DS1306 Pin description

DS1306 Pin description

Control registers

Status register

RTC registers and address map

It has total 128 bytes of RAM space.

RTC registers and address map

RTC registers and address map

Address locations for time and date

Power supply configurations

Power supply configurations

Power supply configurations

Interfacing using MSSP module

The associated registers are
SSPBUF: holds the byte to be transmitted or received. SSP1CON: SPI mode selection of PIC18 SSPSTAT: Status flags. All are 8-bits wide.

SSPSTAT: MSSP STATUS REGISTER (SPI MODE)

SSPSTAT: MSSP STATUS REGISTER (SPI MODE)

SSPCON1: MSSP CONTROL REGISTER 1 (SPI MODE)

SSPCON1: MSSP CONTROL REGISTER 1 (SPI MODE)

Connections

Assignments: PIC18F4520
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Develop the C program for interfacing DS1306 RTC interfacing, and simulate results on proteus. Simulate the capture mode programming. Simulate the compare mode programming. Interface DC motor using PWM , for different duty cycles. Use the above code to implement a water fountain.

Assignments: PIC18F4520
6. Implement up-down counter using RTC DS1306 and LCD 16x2. 7. Implement stop-watch using RTC, LCD and keys. 8. Study and implement ALARM features of DS1306 in assembly and C.