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20 years ago

SPI Slave bug?

Has anybody used the SPI core as a slave device in a NIOS II implementation? If so, have you had relatively frequent data errors? There is no HAL for the SPI as slave, so I'm just using th...
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20 years ago

Doug,

I have the same issues submitted to Altera's "MySupport". In addition to what Doug has stated, the Status register error bits also do not clear after a write operation, like they are supposed to. Does anyone know why Altera provides a Master SPI driver but not a slave one? Granted, it's not that hard to implement, but nonetheless it would seem that if they had actually written a driver, these things would have fallen out during test and verification...???

John