spidriver

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SPIDriver is an easy-to-use, open source tool for controlling SPI devices over USB. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux, and has a built-in color screen that shows a live “dashboard” of all the SPI activity.

The SPIDriver User Guide has complete information on the hardware:

https://spidriver.com/spidriver.pdf

System Requirements

Because it is a pure Python module, spidriver can run on any system supported by pyserial. This includes:

  • Windows 7 or 10

  • Mac OS

  • Linux, including all Ubuntu distributions

Both Python 2.7 and 3.x are supported.

Installation

The spidriver package can be installed from PyPI using pip:

$ pip install spidriver

Quick start

To connect to an SPI flash and read its JEDEC id:

>>> from spidriver import SPIDriver
>>> s = SPIDriver("/dev/ttyUSB0") # change for your port
>>> s.sel() # start command
>>> s.write([0x9f]) # command 9F is READ JEDEC ID
>>> list(s.read(3)) # read next 3 bytes
[239, 64, 24]
>>> s.unsel() # end command

The User Guide at https://spidriver.com/spidriver.pdf has more examples, as does the SPIDriver repo on github.

Module Contents

class spidriver.SPIDriver(port='/dev/ttyUSB0')

SPIDriver interface.

Parameters

port (str) – The USB port to connect to

After connection, the following object variables reflect the current values of the SPIDriver. They are updated by calling getstatus().

Variables

  • product – product code e.g. ‘spidriver1’ or ‘spidriver2’

  • serial – serial string of SPIDriver

  • uptime – time since SPIDriver boot, in seconds

  • voltage – USB voltage, in V

  • current – current used by attached device, in mA

  • temp – temperature, in degrees C

  • cs – state of CS pin

  • a – state of A pin

  • b – state of B pin

  • ccitt_crc – CCITT-16 CRC of all transmitted and received bytes

detach()

Detach all signals, leaving them all to float.

sel()

Select the SPI device by asserting CS

unsel()

Unselect the SPI device by deasserting CS

read(l)

Read l bytes from the SPI device

Parameters

l (int) – number of bytes to read

Return bytes

received bytes, length l

write(bb)

Write bb to the SPI device

Parameters

bb (bytes) – bytes to write to the SPI device

writeread(bb)

Write bytes to the SPI device, return the read bytes

Parameters

bb (bytes) – bytes to write to the SPI device

Return bytes

received bytes, same length as bb

seta(v)

Set the A signal to 0 or 1

setb(v)

Set the B signal to 0 or 1

getstatus()

Update all status variables