------------------------------------------------------------------------ SQI communication (multi-I/O SPI) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This capture demonstrates SQI communication, which is a form of SPI data exchange where transmitters use multiple I/O data lines in parallel to communicate the same amount of data in fewer clock cycles. In contrast to e.g. QuadSPI flash memory chips which may change the data line count or clock scheme several times within a transaction, SQI keeps the clock and the number of data lines used by the transmitter consistent across the full length of the SPI transaction. Only the direction of data lines could change, when e.g. a master first transmits a request which the slave then responds to, while both use the same number of data lines. Full duplex communication as with the traditional MISO/MOSI scheme is not possible with SQI. Logic analyzer setup -------------------- The capture was taken at a samplerate of 100MHz. Probe SPI ---------------------------- 2 SCK (clock) 3 CS (select) 4 IO0 (data, LSB) 5 IO1 6 IO2 7 IO3 (data, MSB) sqi-four-data-lines-one-transfer.sr ----------------------------------- This capture uses four I/O data lines. Data gets sampled at the rising clock edge (single data rate). Data is sent in MSB first order. The SPI transaction's data byte sequence is: 80 00 00 10 22 42 4f 4f 54 00 80 00 00 a8 85 77 00 20 4e 00 00 sqi-four-data-lines-three-transfers.sr -------------------------------------- This capture was constructed from the above single-transfer example capture. The SPI transfer is repeated three times.