spi2wb

Drive a Wishbone master bus with an SPI bus.

Protocol

The SPI configuration is following :

• CPOL = 0
• CPHA = 1
• CS = active low

An spi2wb frame is composed as following :

8 bits mode

• Write frame:

MOSI : 1AAAAAAA DDDDDDDD
MISO : ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZ

• Read frame

MOSI : 0AAAAAAA ZZZZZZZZ
MISO : ZZZZZZZZ DDDDDDDD

And with following :

• 1/0: write/read bit
• AAAAAAA: 7 bits address
• DDDDDDD: 8 bits data
• ZZZZZZZ: Don't care signal

16 bits mode

• Write frame:

MOSI : 1AAAAAAA DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
MISO : ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

• Read frame

MOSI : 0AAAAAAA ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
MISO : ZZZZZZZZ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

And with following :

• 1/0: write/read bit
• AAAAAAA: 7 bits address
• DDDDDDDDDDDDDD: 16 bits data
• ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ: Don't care signal

Install instructions

This component use Chisel3 as HDL and Cocotb for testbench framework. There is a hack with cocotbify that require a git submodule. Then to clone it don't forget the recursive option :

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Martoni/spi2wb.git

Simulation instructions

iotesters

A minimal code has been written in src/test/scala to test the component in scala. To launch it simply use make:

$ make test

But the actual testbench is written with Python Cocotb module.

Cocotb

To simulate the module go to cocotb/ directory:

• For 8 bits datasize do:

$ cd cocotb
$ DATAZISE=8 make

• For 16 bits datasize do:

$ cd cocotb
$ DATAZISE=16 make

To see waveform use gtkwave with following command :

$ gtkwave TopSpi2Wb.vcd

Test hardware

Generate verilog

To generate verilog synthesizable component do :

$ make

This will generate a verilog top components named TopSpi2Wb.v. This component include a blinker to unsure that the bitstream is well downloaded and fpga started.

Testing with busPirate

The design has been tested with a busPirate. A python script is available in hwtest/ directory to test the component with buspirate :

• For 8 bits read/write:

$  python3 test_bus_pirate.py -d8
Write byte 0xCA @ 0x02
Write byte 0xFE @ 0x10
Write byte 0x55 @ 0x00
Write byte 0x12 @ 0xFF
Read byte 0xCA @ 0x02
Read byte 0xFE @ 0x10
Read byte 0x55 @ 0x00
Read byte 0x12 @ 0xFF

• For 16 bits read/write:

$  python3 test_bus_pirate.py -d16
Write byte 0xCAFE @ 0x02
Write byte 0x5958 @ 0x01
Write byte 0x5599 @ 0x00
Write byte 0xBAAF @ 0x10
Write byte 0x1234 @ 0x12
Read byte 0xCAFE @ 0x02
Read byte 0x5958 @ 0x01
Read byte 0x5599 @ 0x00
Read byte 0xBAAF @ 0x10
Read byte 0x1234 @ 0x12