Hello Julian,
I am having the same issue, could you let me know about the solution? Have 
you found some workaround to use BBB->SPI and ADS8528?
Best regards 
Antonio


Em segunda-feira, 10 de março de 2014 07:15:25 UTC-3, Julian David Rath 
escreveu:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just found out that this is a better place to ask my question, it seams 
> like there is also a beaglebone Google group, little confusing. So here my 
> cross-post:
>
> I'd like to connect 4 ADS8528[0] daisy-chained via SPI to a BBB. I want to 
> test it in different iterations first I want to measure the 32 Analog input 
> channels captured by the ADS8528s with 1kHz and at the end with 200kHz. 
> Those ADS8528 using 4 SPI Channels in daisy-chain mode. So I did some 
> calculations on the needed bandwidth:
>
> for 1Khz:
> 12Bit * 32Channels * 4KHz = 384 Kbit/s 
>
> On 4 SPI Channels that means:
> 12* 32*1Khz = 96 Kbit/s per SPI channel
>
> for 200Khz:
> 12Bit * 32Channels * 200KHz = 76.8 Mbit/s = 9.6MByte/s
>
> On 4 SPI Channels that means:
> 76.8Mb/s /4 = 19.2 Mbit/s per SPI channel
>
> Now 2 things: 
>  * Should/Can I use the built-in SPI of the BBB or do I have to implement 
> 4 channels SPI bus by hand (High datarates PRUSS I guess)?
>  * Do you think the high datarates for the 200Khz are achievable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /Julian
>
> [0]: http://www.ti.com/product/ads8528
>

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