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20. USI – Universal Serial Interface
20.1
Features
The Universal Serial Interface, or USI, provides the basic hardware resources needed for serial
communication. Combined with a minimum of control software, the USI allows significantly
higher transfer rates and uses less code space than solutions based on software only. Interrupts
are included to minimize the processor load. The main features of the USI are:
Two-wire Synchronous Data Transfer (Master or Slave)
Three-wire Synchronous Data Transfer (Master or Slave)
Data Received Interrupt
Wake up from Idle Mode
In Two-wire Mode: Wake-up from All Sleep Modes, Including Power-down Mode
Two-wire Start Condition Detector with Interrupt Capability
20.2
Overview
A simplified block diagram of the USI is shown on
Figure 20-1. For the actual placement of I/O
CPU accessible I/O Registers, including I/O bits and I/O pins, are shown in bold. The device-
Figure 20-1. Universal Serial Interface, Block Diagram
The 8-bit Shift Register is directly accessible via the data bus and contains the incoming and
outgoing data. The register has no buffering so the data must be read as quickly as possible to
ensure that no data is lost. The most significant bit is connected to one of two output pins
depending of the wire mode configuration. A transparent latch is inserted between the Serial
Register Output and output pin, which delays the change of data output to the opposite clock
edge of the data input sampling. The serial input is always sampled from the Data Input (DI) pin
independent of the configuration.
DATA
BUS
USIPF
USITC
USICLK
USICS0
USICS1
USIOIF
USIOIE
USIDC
USISIF
USIWM0
USIWM1
USISIE
Bit7
Two-wire Clock
Control Unit
DO
(Output only)
DI/SDA
(Input/Open Drain)
USCK/SCL
(Input/Open Drain)
4-bit Counter
USIDR
USISR
DQ
LE
USICR
CLOCK
HOLD
TIM0 COMP
Bit0
[1]
3
0
1
2
3
0
1
2
0
1
2