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I need to write to the 3 pin SPI DAC on Intel Max10 FPGA Development Kit from C using NIOS soft processor.
There are several SPI IP varieties to choose from in Platform Designer. I'm not sure which SPI variant to choose and i'm not able to find a demo or documents/videos on this subject. The DAC is the three pin SPI DAC, so I expect that the best choice is the 'SPI-(3 wire Serial)', but I would like to confirm this. Is this the logical choice? What do you use most often? Example of typical code? Thanks for your help. BobLink Copied
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I have successfully used SPI (3 Wire Serial) to drive slow ADCs and DACs with both NIOSII/C program and HPS/Linux.
depending on your dac type you can have different code. Mine was simple:int DACSetVoltage(float V, int DACnr)
{
int value = DACVoltage2Bit(V); // this is my function that converts float value to binary corresponding to DAC type and reference voltage used.
alt_u8 array;
array = value>>8;
array = value & 0xff;
return alt_avalon_spi_command(DAC_SPI_BASE, DACnr, 2, array, 0, 0, 0);
}
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--- Quote Start --- I have successfully used SPI (3 Wire Serial) to drive slow ADCs and DACs with both NIOSII/C program and HPS/Linux. depending on your dac type you can have different code. Mine was simple:
int DACSetVoltage(float V, int DACnr)
{
int value = DACVoltage2Bit(V); // this is my function that converts float value to binary corresponding to DAC type and reference voltage used.
alt_u8 array;
array = value>>8;
array = value & 0xff;
return alt_avalon_spi_command(DAC_SPI_BASE, DACnr, 2, array, 0, 0, 0);
}
--- Quote End --- Thanks, settem. Which core are you using, and if you don't mind, what is the DAC part number? I may be able to figure something out from that much.
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Also - When hooking up an SPI DAC to Altera FPGA, is it most common to use the DAC as master? and use a SPI slave core IP in Platform Designer? Thanks for your help.
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