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13 years ago

Using SPI Without MISO

Hi All I'm using a Nios II as a SPI master and connecting to a DAC (LT1452) slave. The DAC has no returning MISO line, is it still possible to use the Altera SPI core? I was assumin...
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13 years ago

You can indeed connect MISO to MOSI, but it's even better to connect it to a constant signal, either '0' or '1', and then the receiving shift register will be optimized away.