1spi_butterfly - parport-to-butterfly adapter driver 2=================================================== 3 4This is a hardware and software project that includes building and using 5a parallel port adapter cable, together with an "AVR Butterfly" to run 6firmware for user interfacing and/or sensors. A Butterfly is a $US20 7battery powered card with an AVR microcontroller and lots of goodies: 8sensors, LCD, flash, toggle stick, and more. You can use AVR-GCC to 9develop firmware for this, and flash it using this adapter cable. 10 11You can make this adapter from an old printer cable and solder things 12directly to the Butterfly. Or (if you have the parts and skills) you 13can come up with something fancier, providing ciruit protection to the 14Butterfly and the printer port, or with a better power supply than two 15signal pins from the printer port. Or for that matter, you can use 16similar cables to talk to many AVR boards, even a breadboard. 17 18This is more powerful than "ISP programming" cables since it lets kernel 19SPI protocol drivers interact with the AVR, and could even let the AVR 20issue interrupts to them. Later, your protocol driver should work 21easily with a "real SPI controller", instead of this bitbanger. 22 23 24The first cable connections will hook Linux up to one SPI bus, with the 25AVR and a DataFlash chip; and to the AVR reset line. This is all you 26need to reflash the firmware, and the pins are the standard Atmel "ISP" 27connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards). On the parport 28side this is like "sp12" programming cables. 29 30 Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25) 31 ------ --------- --------------- 32 SCK = J403.PB1/SCK = pin 2/D0 33 RESET = J403.nRST = pin 3/D1 34 VCC = J403.VCC_EXT = pin 8/D6 35 MOSI = J403.PB2/MOSI = pin 9/D7 36 MISO = J403.PB3/MISO = pin 11/S7,nBUSY 37 GND = J403.GND = pin 23/GND 38 39Then to let Linux master that bus to talk to the DataFlash chip, you must 40(a) flash new firmware that disables SPI (set PRR.2, and disable pullups 41by clearing PORTB.[0-3]); (b) configure the mtd_dataflash driver; and 42(c) cable in the chipselect. 43 44 Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25) 45 ------ --------- --------------- 46 VCC = J400.VCC_EXT = pin 7/D5 47 SELECT = J400.PB0/nSS = pin 17/C3,nSELECT 48 GND = J400.GND = pin 24/GND 49 50Or you could flash firmware making the AVR into an SPI slave (keeping the 51DataFlash in reset) and tweak the spi_butterfly driver to make it bind to 52the driver for your custom SPI-based protocol. 53 54The "USI" controller, using J405, can also be used for a second SPI bus. 55That would let you talk to the AVR using custom SPI-with-USI firmware, 56while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash. There are plenty 57of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as: 58 59 Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25) 60 ------ --------- --------------- 61 SCK = J403.PE4/USCK = pin 5/D3 62 MOSI = J403.PE5/DI = pin 6/D4 63 MISO = J403.PE6/DO = pin 12/S5,nPAPEROUT 64 GND = J403.GND = pin 22/GND 65 66 IRQ = J402.PF4 = pin 10/S6,ACK 67 GND = J402.GND(P2) = pin 25/GND 68 69