High speed, pin-flexible SPI writes

Pt 101822

We’re working on speeding up our LPD8806 library (for massive installations) and wanted to share our nice-and-fast ‘bitbang’ SPI code for use with Arduinos. we use this whenever we have a display that needs fast updating, but don’t want to constrain the system to using the hardware SPI port! You can check it out on GitHub


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1 Comment

  1. You can also use the counter variable as mask. This will make a better/smaller code:

    uint8_t mask;

    for (mask=0x80; mask!=0; mask>>=1) {
    *clkportreg &= ~clkpin;
    if(c & mask) {
    *mosiportreg |= mosipin;
    } else {
    *mosiportreg &= ~mosipin;
    }
    *clkportreg |= clkpin;
    }

    *clkportreg &= ~clkpin;
    // Make sure clock ends low

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