Installation and Operation

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DS52056A-page 13

FIGURE 2-1:

SPI TERMINAL UTILITY WINDOW

After the application is started, the state of the connection with the MCP2210 is shown

in the Status Messages section (lower left corner of the screen).

The user can establish the GP configuration. The GPs can be used as chip select pins.

Each GP Active and Idle value can be established by selecting the appropriate check

boxes, or by directly supplying the correct value in the GP Direct Settings section. The

same behavior applies to the GP designation (the GP designation can be established

by clicking the appropriate radio button, or by directly supplying the GP designation

value in the GP Settings Direct Values section).

The SPI settings pertaining to the needed SPI transfer can be established in the SPI

Parameters section.

The data to be sent goes in the Tx Data field. To send the data to the SPI slave device,

click the SPI Transfer Data button on the lower-right side of the screen. The data

received from the SPI slave device is displayed in the Rx Data field.

The user data can be supplied in either HEX or Decimal mode. This can be accom-

plished by selecting the HEX mode check box. The data in the Tx and Rx Data fields

will be displayed in HEX or Decimal.

GP Settings Section

Transfer Data button

Status messages

SPI Transfer

Parameters

Section

HEX/Decimal

user data

mode

SPI user data

section

GP Direct

Settings section