Looking for a SPI to multiplexed adress/data bus 'bridge'

Mar 24, 2010 6 Replies

Good afternoon,



I need to replace the 80186 compatible CPU on a design from us by a more modern CPU module that has no data bus but an SPI interface.



I found some SPI-IO expander chips, I could probably use a simple CPLD, but a ready-to-use bridge chip that converts to a 8-bit multiplexed data/address bus would be very nice.



Does anyone know of such a chip?



Thanks, Thomas


What *exactly* do you want to interface to? Why doesn't the I/O expander work for you?

I want to achive higher data rates than I can get with byte-banging (?) the IO-port.

Several devices are connected to the bus, among them an ADC, a DAC, and a couple of FPGAs.

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Can't imagine a CPU without a databus. So I think you'll have to be more specific about your needs.

petrus bitbyter

do you mean 16 bit MCU ?

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Yes, but an 8-bit data bus would be sufficient.

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Microchip support 8, 16, 32 but MCU

I cannot sure, are you looking for 80x86 with data bus?

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