how to use a 2 slave spi device on OPi PC

kgb

I have an ADC and DAC board built for Raspberry Pi which has 2 slaves on the SPI bus, requiring ce0 and ce1. This works fine on the Raspberry pi 3, which installs devices /dev/spidevo.0 and also /dev/spidev/0.1,  to access each slave.   On the OPi PC I can access slave 0, but not slave 1. In /dev on the Opi there is only a single spidev device: /dev/spidev0.0 and no spidev0.1 device. I have modified the script.bin (I am using Armbian legacy OS) by editing the .fex to add a spi_cs1 = portC07<3><default><default><default>   line. But this prevents any spidev device from loading, even spidev0.0 is now missing.
I have tried many variations to add a spi_cs1  connection in the fex file, but noothing works. the OPi pinout description includes SPI-CE1 (header pin 26) but how can i make this active?

How can I make the spi system on the OPi PC work with 2 slave devices on the bus as the rasberry pi does easily?

nopnop2002

There is information on Russian below.

http://orangepi.pp.ua/index.php? topic=768.0

But I don't know where PA15/PA16 is.

kgb

Thanks nopnop2002. I upgraded the kernel to 3.4.113-sun8i. But I still only have /dev/spidev0.0. Note that the image above shows spidev1.0 - this is not what i am asking about. It is a second spi bus, but again with only a single slave, slave 0.   I need a single spi bus which has 2 slaves 0.0 and 0.1. I cannot read the russian site for further information. Perhaps there is a differen w1-sunxi module around somewhere but the new module with the 113 upgrade did not give me a second SPI bus. Changing the script.bin (using .fex) to add PA21 as ce1 still completely removes all SPI devices.

nopnop2002

kgb replied at 2017-3-12 22:49
Thanks nopnop2002. I upgraded the kernel to 3.4.113-sun8i. But I still only have /dev/spidev0.0. Not ...

OK i understood.

When you'd like to control more than 2 of SLAVE device.
It's necessary to decide Chip Select Signal using external device.
Please refer this topic.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=227101

nopnop2002

kgb replied at 2017-3-12 22:49
Thanks nopnop2002. I upgraded the kernel to 3.4.113-sun8i. But I still only have /dev/spidev0.0. Not ...

I tried this circuit.（I want OPI Fritzing parts)
Left :MCP3204
Right :MCP3002

It work fine by this code.
Please try.

1. /*
   
2. * Read MPC3002/MCP3204 with wiringPiSPIDataRW
   
3. */
   
4. #include <stdio.h>
   
5. #include <stdlib.h>
   
6. #include <wiringPi.h>
   
7. #include <wiringPiSPI.h>
   
8. 
   
9. #define DEBUG 1
   
10. #define SPI0 0 // /dev/spidev0.0
    
11. #define CS0  8 // Slave1 ChipSelect
    
12. #define CS1  9 // Slave2 ChipSekect
    
13. 
    
14. int main(int argc, char **argv){
    
15.   int retCode;
    
16.   int i;
    
17.   int a2dChannel = 0;  // analog channel
    
18.   int a2dVal = 0;
    
19.   float a2dVol = 0;
    
20.   float Vref = 3.3;
    
21.   unsigned char data[3];
    
22. 
    
23.   if (argc == 2) {
    
24.     printf("argv[1]=%s\n",argv[1]);
    
25.     a2dChannel=atoi(argv[1]);
    
26.   }
    
27. 
    
28.   if (wiringPiSetup() == -1) {
    
29.     printf("wiringPiSetup Error\n");
    
30.   }
    
31.   pinMode(CS0,OUTPUT);
    
32.   pinMode(CS1,OUTPUT);
    
33.   digitalWrite(CS0,HIGH);
    
34.   digitalWrite(CS1,HIGH);
    
35. 
    
36. // SPI channel 0 = /dev/spidev0.0
    
37.   if (wiringPiSPISetup(SPI0, 1000000) < 0)
    
38.   {
    
39.     printf("SPISetup failed:\n");
    
40.   }
    
41. 
    
42.   for(i=0;i<10;i++) {
    
43.     digitalWrite(CS0,LOW); // Activate MCP3002
    
44.     data[0] = 0b01100000 |( ((a2dChannel & 0x03) << 4));  //  first byte transmitted -> start bit
    
45.     data[1] = 0; // third byte transmitted....don't care
    
46. if(DEBUG)printf("[MCP3002]data[write]=%02x-%02x\n",data[0],data[1]);
    
47.     retCode=wiringPiSPIDataRW (SPI0,data,sizeof(data));
    
48. if(DEBUG)printf("[MCP3002]wiringPiSPIDataRW=%d\n",retCode);
    
49. if(DEBUG)printf("[MCP3002]data[read]=%02x-%02x\n",data[0],data[1]);
    
50.     a2dVal = (data[0]<< 8) & 0b1100000000; //first 2 bit
    
51.     a2dVal |=  (data[1] & 0xff);
    
52.     a2dVol = (float)a2dVal/1023 * Vref;
    
53.     printf("[MCP3002]a2dVal=%d\n",a2dVal);
    
54.     printf("[MCP3002]a2dVol=%f[V]\n",a2dVol);
    
55.     digitalWrite(CS0,HIGH);
    
56.     sleep(1);
    
57. 
    
58.     digitalWrite(CS1,LOW); // Activate MCP3204
    
59.     data[0] = 0b00000110 |( ((a2dChannel & 0x04) >> 2));  //  first byte transmitted -> start bit -> (SGL/DIF = 1, D2=0)
    
60.     data[1] = 0b00000000 |( ((a2dChannel & 0x03) << 6)); // second byte transmitted -> (D1=D0=0)
    
61.     data[2] = 0; // third byte transmitted....don't care
    
62. if(DEBUG)printf("[MCP3204]data[write]=%02x-%02x-%02x\n",data[0],data[1],data[2]);
    
63.     retCode=wiringPiSPIDataRW (SPI0,data,sizeof(data));
    
64. if(DEBUG)printf("[MCP3004]wiringPiSPIDataRW=%d\n",retCode);
    
65. if(DEBUG)printf("[MCP3204]data[read]=%02x-%02x-%02x\n",data[0],data[1],data[2]);
    
66.     a2dVal = (data[1]<< 8) & 0b111100000000; //first 4 bit
    
67.     a2dVal |=  (data[2] & 0xff);
    
68.     a2dVol = (float)a2dVal/4095 * Vref;
    
69.     printf("[MCP3204]a2dVal=%d\n",a2dVal);
    
70.     printf("[MCP3204]a2dVol=%f[V]\n",a2dVol);
    
71.     digitalWrite(CS1,HIGH);
    
72.     sleep(1);
    
73.   }
    
74. }

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kgb

Thanks. I followed your idea and used 2 spare GPIO pins as device selects, which i drive from the code. I have then been able to use device access through /dev/spidev0.0 for both devices, rather than using wiringPiSPIDataRW (...)   This avoids the need for me to use the device setup/access data strings as I can rely on the library provided by the manufacturer of the ADC-DAC card i am using.