Hej Antonio,

I used the PRU to communicate with the BBB, which works quite good.
But datarates with more the 20 Mbit are not realistic since the PRUs
have a clock of 200 Mhz.
If you are interested I could prepare some code to release.

bests,

Julian


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:52 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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