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3arduino Communications

The document discusses three common serial communication protocols used with Arduino: serial (UART) communication, I2C communication, and SPI communication. Serial communication uses pins 0 and 1 for transmit and receive when connected via USB or can connect to other devices. I2C uses two wires (SDA and SCL) to communicate between devices using addressing. SPI is faster than I2C and uses four wires (SS, SCK, MOSI, MISO) to enable full duplex communication between a master and slave device.

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3arduino Communications

The document discusses three common serial communication protocols used with Arduino: serial (UART) communication, I2C communication, and SPI communication. Serial communication uses pins 0 and 1 for transmit and receive when connected via USB or can connect to other devices. I2C uses two wires (SDA and SCL) to communicate between devices using addressing. SPI is faster than I2C and uses four wires (SS, SCK, MOSI, MISO) to enable full duplex communication between a master and slave device.

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1- Serial (UART) communications

- Consider you need to communicate with another device

- Arduino comes with built-in communication protocols

- TX: Transmit data


- RX: Receive data

- When computer is connected to Arduino UNO via USB, it communicates through


Pin 0 (RX) and Pin 1 (TX).

- If USB connection is not used, Pin 0 and Pin 1 can be used communicate with
other devices such as GPS device, etc.

- This connection is a single serial interface which means communication can be


performed at one given time between the devices.
1- Serial (UART) communications
- Arduino Mega have multiple RX and TX pins, therefore multiple
serial communication can be performed at the same time.
2- I2C or TWI communications
- It is a fast serial interface that allows devices to be connected in
a chain (operates like a bus).

- Arduino IDE which is the environment that we use to program


Arduino comes with a special library that makes the use of this
protocol very simple.

- SDA line is also implemented on pin A4, and SCL is implemented


on pin A5.
2- I2C (TWI) communications
- I2C: Inter-integrated Circuit
- TWI: Two Wire Interface

- At every clock tick, a new bit is sent through the data line.

- Every sensor or device connected to Arduino must have a unique address.


- So that the Master sends data to a specific device.

- The master can send data to all other devices at the same time and that is called
as broadcast.

- If you want to send data to a specific device, use the addressing scheme and
simply a number.

- SDA line is also implemented on pin A4, and SCL is implemented on pin A5.
- Data flows in one direction at a time.
3 – SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface)
- Much faster communication compared to TWI
- SPI is full duplex.

- Full duplex communication allows for two devices to


communicate so that information flows towards both directions
at the same time.

- SPI communication is full duplex, while I2C or TWI is half duplex.

- In SPI, there are 4 wires, in stead of 2.


3 – SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface)
- SS: Slave select
- SCK: Clock
- MOSI: Data line, Master Out Slave In
- MISO: Data line, Master In Slave Out
- If multiple sensors or devices are connected to Arduino using
SPI protocol, the data and clock lines can be shared, but a
unique slave select (SS) line must be used for each connected
device.
3 – SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface)
- Arduino will be able to talk a SPI device once at a time.

- Although you have multiple such devices, only one of those


devices can communicate with the Arduino at one time.

- SS (slave select) lines are used to turn on and off one of SPI
slaves.

- Set the line you want to communicate high (On), and set all the
other to low (Off).

- SPI library is implemented in Arduino IDE.

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