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69 lines
2.9 KiB
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Executable file
spi_butterfly - parport-to-butterfly adapter driver
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This is a hardware and software project that includes building and using
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a parallel port adapter cable, together with an "AVR Butterfly" to run
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firmware for user interfacing and/or sensors. A Butterfly is a $US20
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battery powered card with an AVR microcontroller and lots of goodies:
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sensors, LCD, flash, toggle stick, and more. You can use AVR-GCC to
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develop firmware for this, and flash it using this adapter cable.
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You can make this adapter from an old printer cable and solder things
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directly to the Butterfly. Or (if you have the parts and skills) you
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can come up with something fancier, providing ciruit protection to the
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Butterfly and the printer port, or with a better power supply than two
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signal pins from the printer port. Or for that matter, you can use
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similar cables to talk to many AVR boards, even a breadboard.
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This is more powerful than "ISP programming" cables since it lets kernel
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SPI protocol drivers interact with the AVR, and could even let the AVR
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issue interrupts to them. Later, your protocol driver should work
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easily with a "real SPI controller", instead of this bitbanger.
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The first cable connections will hook Linux up to one SPI bus, with the
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AVR and a DataFlash chip; and to the AVR reset line. This is all you
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need to reflash the firmware, and the pins are the standard Atmel "ISP"
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connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards). On the parport
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side this is like "sp12" programming cables.
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Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25)
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------ --------- ---------------
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SCK = J403.PB1/SCK = pin 2/D0
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RESET = J403.nRST = pin 3/D1
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VCC = J403.VCC_EXT = pin 8/D6
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MOSI = J403.PB2/MOSI = pin 9/D7
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MISO = J403.PB3/MISO = pin 11/S7,nBUSY
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GND = J403.GND = pin 23/GND
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Then to let Linux master that bus to talk to the DataFlash chip, you must
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(a) flash new firmware that disables SPI (set PRR.2, and disable pullups
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by clearing PORTB.[0-3]); (b) configure the mtd_dataflash driver; and
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(c) cable in the chipselect.
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Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25)
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------ --------- ---------------
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VCC = J400.VCC_EXT = pin 7/D5
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SELECT = J400.PB0/nSS = pin 17/C3,nSELECT
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GND = J400.GND = pin 24/GND
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Or you could flash firmware making the AVR into an SPI slave (keeping the
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DataFlash in reset) and tweak the spi_butterfly driver to make it bind to
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the driver for your custom SPI-based protocol.
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The "USI" controller, using J405, can also be used for a second SPI bus.
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That would let you talk to the AVR using custom SPI-with-USI firmware,
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while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash. There are plenty
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of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as:
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Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25)
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------ --------- ---------------
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SCK = J403.PE4/USCK = pin 5/D3
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MOSI = J403.PE5/DI = pin 6/D4
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MISO = J403.PE6/DO = pin 12/S5,nPAPEROUT
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GND = J403.GND = pin 22/GND
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IRQ = J402.PF4 = pin 10/S6,ACK
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GND = J402.GND(P2) = pin 25/GND
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