Motorola DSP56012 User Manual

When the SHI is enabled and configured in the I

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C Slave mode, the SHI controller 

inspects the SDA and SCL lines to detect a start event. Upon detection of the start 
event, the SHI receives the slave device address byte and enables the slave device 
address recognition unit. If the slave device address byte was not identified as its 
personal address, the SHI controller will fail to acknowledge this byte by not driving 
low the SDA line at the ninth clock pulse (ACK = 1). However, it continues to poll the 
SDA and SCL lines to detect a new start event. If the personal slave device address 
was correctly identified, the slave device address byte is acknowledged (ACK = 0 is 
sent) and a receive/transmit session is initiated according to the eighth bit of the 
received slave device address byte (i.e., the R/W bit).

A receive session is initiated when the personal slave device address has been 
correctly identified and the R/W bit of the received slave device address byte has 
been cleared. Following a receive initiation, data in the SDA line is shifted into IOSR 
MSB first. Following each received byte, an acknowledge (ACK = 0) is sent at the 
ninth clock pulse via the SDA line. Data is acknowledged bytewise, as required by 
the I

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C bus protocol, and is transferred to the HRX FIFO when the complete word 

(according to HM0–HM1) is filled into IOSR. It is the responsibility of the 
programmer to select the correct number of bytes in an I

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C frame so that they fit in a 

complete number of words. For this purpose, the slave device address byte does not 
count as part of the data, and therefore, it is treated separately. 

In a receive session, only the receive path is enabled and HTX to IOSR transfers are 
inhibited. The HRX FIFO contains valid data, which may be read by the DSP if the 
HRNE status bit is set. When the HRX FIFO is full and IOSR is filled, an overrun 
error occurs and the HROE status bit is set. In this case, the last received byte will not 
be acknowledged (ACK = 1 is sent) and the word in the IOSR will not be transferred 
to the HRX FIFO. This may inform the external I

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C master device of the occurrence of 

an overrun error on the slave side. Consequently the I

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terminate this session by generating a stop event.

The HREQ output pin, if enabled for receive (HRQE1–HRQE0 = 01), is asserted when 
the IOSR is ready to receive and the HRX FIFO is not full; this operation guarantees 
that the next received data word will be stored in the FIFO. HREQ is deasserted at the 
first clock pulse of the next received word. The HREQ line may be used to interrupt 
the external I

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C master device. Connecting the HREQ line between two 

SHI-equipped DSPs, one operating as an I

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C master device and the other as an I

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slave device, enables full hardware handshaking.